Predictive Modeling for Social Needs in Emergency Department Settings
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Emergency Service, Hospital, Social Determinants of Health
In brief
The overall objective of this study is to support emergency department management of patients' health-related social needs. This study will measure the impact of a decision support system that informs clinicians about which patients are likely to screen positive for a health-related social need. The system uses statistical models to create a health-related social need risk score for each patient. The main questions, the study aims to answer are: * Does providing emergency department clinicians with risk scores on health-related social needs increase screening and referral activities? * Does providing emergency department clinicians with risk scores on health-related social needs change patients' use of healthcare services? The decision support system with health-related social needs risk scores will be introduced for all adult patients at one emergency department. Screening rates, referrals, and subsequent healthcare encounters will be compared with emergency departments that did not have access to the decision support system.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06655974
- Run by
- Indiana University
- People needed
- 518512
- Starts
- 2025-03-10
- Expected to finish
- 2025-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-03-31
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults (>18 years old)
- Seeking care at Indianapolis, Indiana area emergency departments (EDs).
You may not qualify if…
- Children
- Encounters by patients that present with a critical illness/injury (e.g. severe trauma patients or those with Emergency Severity Index (ESI) classification level 1)
- Encounters by patients who have been transferred from another inpatient facility
- Patients that die during the ED encounter
- Encounters among patients who were ultimately admitted during their ED visits from our analysis
Where it is running
- Indiana University Health — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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