Drug Topics November 11, 2022
Collecting data on social determinants of health carries a number of issues and needs to be improved to create learning health systems.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States’ insufficient data infrastructure exposed the most socially marginalized and vulnerable populations, showing the true extent of existing structural health care disparities. These populations are at a greater risk for physical, social, and financial harm; however, our understanding of these harms often comes from weak data sources, anecdotes, experiences of single institutions, and indirect data taken from the United States Census.
In a recent study,1 researchers used data from the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s COVID-19 in Oncology Registry to compare cancer treatment delays with various factors like demographic factors, disease-related factors,...
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