Open AccessUtilization of Social Determinants of Health ICD-10 Z-Codes Among Hospitalized Patients in the United States, 2016–2017
Author(s) -
Hannah P Truong,
Alina A. Luke,
Gmerice Hammond,
Rishi K. Wadhera,
Mat Reidhead,
Karen E. Joynt Maddox
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001418
Subject(s) - medicaid , social determinants of health , medicine , diagnosis code , demography , family medicine , public health , health care , environmental health , political science , sociology , nursing , population , law
The inclusion of Z-codes for social determinants of health (SDOH) in the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) may offer an opportunity to improve data collection of SDOH, but no characterization of their utilization exists on a national all-payer level.