ReviewJMIR public health and surveillance2019
Combining Nonclinical Determinants of Health and Clinical Data for Research and Evaluation: Rapid Review.
Review in JMIR public health and surveillance, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review.Nature medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Social determinants of health in electronic health records and their impact on analysis and risk prediction: A systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Pooled it
- Using Health Information Systems to Support Behavioral Interventions in Local Contexts: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Review
- Development and validation of computable social phenotypes for health-related social needs.JAMIA open · 2025Article
- Association of Socioeconomic Status With Long-Term Outcome in Survivors After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Nationwide Population-Based Longitudinal Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Strategies of Predictive Schemes and Clinical Diagnosis for Prognosis Using MIMIC-III: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Integrating Commercial and Social Determinants of Health: A Unified Ontology for Non-Clinical Determinants of Health.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2023Article
- Substance use disorders and social determinants of health from electronic medical records obtained during Kentucky's "triple wave".Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2022Article
- Achieving Inclusivity by Design: Social and Contextual Information in Medical Knowledge.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2022Review
- Modeling the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Strengthening approaches to respond to the social and emotional well-being needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the Cultural Pathways Program.Primary health care research & development · 2021Article
- Including Social and Behavioral Determinants in Predictive Models: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities.JMIR medical informatics · 2020Article
- Precision Health-Enabled Machine Learning to Identify Need for Wraparound Social Services Using Patient- and Population-Level Data Sets: Algorithm Development and Validation.JMIR medical informatics · 2020Article
- A Governance Framework to Integrate Longitudinal Clinical and Community Data in a Distributed Data Network: The Childhood Obesity Data Initiative.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundNonclinical determinants of health are of increasing importance to health care delivery and health policy. Concurrent with growing interest in better addressing patients' nonmedical issues is the exponential growth in availability of data sources that provide insight into these nonclinical determinants of health.
objectiveThis review aimed to characterize the state of the existing literature on the use of nonclinical health indicators in conjunction with clinical data sources.
methodsWe conducted a rapid review of articles and relevant agency publications published in English. Eligible studies described the effect of, the methods for, or the need for combining nonclinical data with clinical data and were published in the United States between January 2010 and April 2018. Additional reports were obtained by manual searching. Records were screened for inclusion in 2 rounds by 4 trained reviewers with interrater reliability checks. From each article, we abstracted the measures, data sources, and level of measurement (individual or aggregate) for each nonclinical determinant of health reported.
resultsA total of 178 articles were included in the review. The articles collectively reported on 744 different nonclinical determinants of health measures. Measures related to socioeconomic status and material conditions were most prevalent (included in 90% of articles), followed by the closely related domain of social circumstances (included in 25% of articles), reflecting the widespread availability and use of standard demographic measures such as household income, marital status, education, race, and ethnicity in public health surveillance. Measures related to health-related behaviors (eg, smoking, diet, tobacco, and substance abuse), the built environment (eg, transportation, sidewalks, and buildings), natural environment (eg, air quality and pollution), and health services and conditions (eg, provider of care supply, utilization, and disease prevalence) were less common, whereas measures related to public policies were rare. When combining nonclinical and clinical data, a majority of studies associated aggregate, area-level nonclinical measures with individual-level clinical data by matching geographical location.
conclusionsA variety of nonclinical determinants of health measures have been widely but unevenly used in conjunction with clinical data to support population health research.
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