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Daniel To1, Cara Joyce2, Sujay Kulshrestha3
1Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL.
Abstract:
Predictors from the structured data in the electronic health record (EHR) have previously been used for case-identification in substance misuse. We aim to examine the added benefit from census-tract data, a proxy for socioeconomic status, to improve identification. A cohort of 186,611 hospitalizations was derived between 2007 and 2017. Reference labels included alcohol misuse only, opioid misuse only, and both alcohol and opioid misuse. Baseline models were created using 24 EHR variables, and enhanced models were created with the addition of 48 census-tract variables from the United States American Community Survey. The absolute net reclassification index (NRI) was applied to measure the benefit in adding census-tract variables to baseline models. The baseline models already had good calibration and discrimination. Adding census-tract variables provided negligible improvement to sensitivity and specificity and NRI was less than 1% across substance groups. Our results show the census-tract added minimal value to prediction models.
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