Identifying hospitals with a high proportion of patients with social risk factors


What The Study Did:


This study investigates whether different risk factors identify the same hospitals caring for a high proportion of disadvantaged patients using seven definitions of social risk.




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Susannah M. Bernheim, M.D., M.H.S., of the


Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut,

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