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ArticlePreventive medicine reports2019

Identifying neighborhood characteristics associated with diabetes and hypertension control in an urban African-American population using geo-linked electronic health records.

Félice Lê-Scherban, Lance Ballester, Juan C Castro, Suzanne Cohen, Steven Melly, Kari Moore, James W Buehler

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Félice Lê-ScherbanUrban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Lance BallesterUrban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Juan C CastroFamily Practice & Counseling Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Suzanne CohenHealth Federation of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Steven MellyUrban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Kari MooreUrban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
James W BuehlerUrban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Drexel University · USCounseling Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For health care providers, information on community-level social determinants of health is most valuable when it is specific to the populations and health outcomes for which they are responsible. Diabetes and hypertension are highly prevalent conditions whose management requires an interplay of clinical treatment and behavioral modifications that may be sensitive to community conditions. We used geo-linked electronic health records from 2016 of African American patients of a network of federally qualified health centers in Philadelphia, PA to examine cross-sectional associations between characteristics of patients' residential neighborhoods and hypertension and diabetes control (

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African AmericansDiabetesElectronic health recordsHypertensionNeighborhoodsSocial determinants of health

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PMID31367515
PMCPMC6656692
OpenAlexW2959537817

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