Assessing the capacity of social determinants of health data to augment predictive models identifying patients in need of wraparound social services

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2018-01
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English
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Introduction A growing variety of diverse data sources is emerging to better inform health care delivery and health outcomes. We sought to evaluate the capacity for clinical, socioeconomic, and public health data sources to predict the need for various social service referrals among patients at a safety-net hospital.

Materials and Methods We integrated patient clinical data and community-level data representing patients’ social determinants of health (SDH) obtained from multiple sources to build random forest decision models to predict the need for any, mental health, dietitian, social work, or other SDH service referrals. To assess the impact of SDH on improving performance, we built separate decision models using clinical and SDH determinants and clinical data only.

Results Decision models predicting the need for any, mental health, and dietitian referrals yielded sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy measures ranging between 60% and 75%. Specificity and accuracy scores for social work and other SDH services ranged between 67% and 77%, while sensitivity scores were between 50% and 63%. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values for the decision models ranged between 70% and 78%. Models for predicting the need for any services reported positive predictive values between 65% and 73%. Positive predictive values for predicting individual outcomes were below 40%.

Discussion The need for various social service referrals can be predicted with considerable accuracy using a wide range of readily available clinical and community data that measure socioeconomic and public health conditions. While the use of SDH did not result in significant performance improvements, our approach represents a novel and important application of risk predictive modeling.

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Kasthurirathne, S. N., Vest, J. R., Menachemi, N., Halverson, P. K., & Grannis, S. J. (2017). Assessing the capacity of social determinants of health data to augment predictive models identifying patients in need of wraparound social services. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 25(1), 47–53. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx130
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