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Home Research Research Library Community Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Community While Caring for Patients Community Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Community While Caring for Patients 2016 Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Phillips, Robert L, DeVoe, Jennifer E, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Population Health Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine In 2014 both the Institute of Medicine and the National Quality Forum recommended the inclusion of social determinants of health data in electronic health records (EHRs). Both entities primarily focus on collecting socioeconomic and health behavior data directly from individual patients. The burden of reliably, accurately, and consistently collecting such information is substantial, and it may take several years before a primary care team has actionable data available in its EHR. A more reliable and less burdensome approach to integrating clinical and social determinant data exists and is technologically feasible now. Community vital signs-aggregated community-level information about the neighborhoods in which our patients live, learn, work, and play-convey contextual social deprivation and associated chronic disease risks based on where patients live. Given widespread access to “big data” and geospatial technologies, community vital signs can be created by linking aggregated population health data with patient addresses in EHRs. These linked data, once imported into EHRs, are a readily available resource to help primary care practices understand the context in which their patients reside and achieve important health goals at the patient, population, and policy levels. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2018 Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? 2021 Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Go to Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Phillips, Robert L, DeVoe, Jennifer E, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Population Health Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2018 Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? 2021 Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Go to Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties
2018 Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Response: Re: Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States
2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately?
2021 Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Go to Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine