Title
Integrating population- and patient-level data for secondary use of electronic health records to study overweight and obesity.
Abstract
We combined patient-level clinical data derived from the Electronic Health Record (EHR) with area-level environmental and socioeconomic data to study factors independently associated with overweight and obesity. Our multinomial logistic regression model showed that area-level factors such as farmers' markets, grocery stores and percent college-educated at the zip code level were significantly associated with the outcomes. However, mismatch in the granularity of community and clinical data limited us in creating a discriminatory model. While these results are promising, they reveal challenges that must be overcome in order to maximize secondary use of EHR data to further explore population health status.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1100
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electronic Health Record,Public Health,Obesity,Secondary Use
Diabetes mellitus,Population,Alternative medicine,Overweight,Obesity,Environmental health,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
192
0926-9630
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Caryn Roth1152.84
Chaitanya P Shivade2825.89
Randi E Foraker3183.26
Peter J Embi421530.87