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. 2021 Oct 19;29(1):187–196. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocab199

Table 2.

Characteristics of studies included in this review

Primary social determinant of health, n (%)
Primary data quality issue Race, ethnicity, country of origin Insurance status Occupation General community-level Environmental Nonspecific
Completeness (missing data), n = 29 15 (37.5%) 1 (100%) 6 (86%) 2 (12.5%) 1 (20%) 6 (86%)
Conformance (incompatible data), n = 16 0 0 1 (14%) 10 (62.5%) 3 (60%) 0
Plausibility (inaccurate data), n = 31 25 (62.5%) 0 0 4 (25%) 1 (20%) 1 (14%)
Total, n = 76 40 1 7 16 5 7
Typical article title “Accuracy of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference in an Electronic Health Record” “Primary Payer at DX: Issues with Collection and Assessment of Data Quality” “Availability and accuracy of occupation in cancer registry data among Florida firefighters” “Match Rate and Positional Accuracy of Two Geocoding Methods for Epidemiologic Research” “Residential mobility in early childhood and the impact on misclassification in pesticide exposures” “Utilization of Social Determinants of Health ICD-10 Z-Codes Among Hospitalized Patients in the United States, 2016–2017”
Usual source for this information within the patient record administrative or demographic sources patient address is geocoded to link community-level data diagnosis codes