Evaluating and Modeling Neighborhood Diversity and Health Using Electronic Health Records.
Jarrod E DaltonElizabeth R PfohNeal V DawsonLyla MouranyAlissa BecerrilDouglas D GunzlerKristen A BergDouglas EinstadterNikolas I KriegerAdam T PerzynskiPublished in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2022)
EHR data are an abundant resource for studying neighborhood diversity and health.When using EHR data for these studies, careful consideration of the goals of the study should be considered in determining cohort specifications and analytic approaches.Causal mediation analysis, stratification, and spatial analysis are effective methods for characterizing social mechanisms and heterogeneity across localized populations.