Suggested Citation: "2 Social Risk Factors: Definitions and Data." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment. Washington, ...

This cross-sectional observational study found several factors associated with whether a patient had sufficient lung cancer risk factor documentation in the electronic health record. Objectives: To ...

While some risk factors like age, sex assigned at birth, ethnicity, and family history cannot be changed, up to 80% of a person’s risk of coronary artery disease comes from these non-modifiable ...

This chapter returns to the methods of accounting for social risk factors and discusses in more detail how the various methods, individually and together, might be leveraged to help the Centers for ...