Figure 1. Unadjusted Rates of Acute Care Utilization by Presence of Health-Related Social Needs (HRSNs).
Hospital stays are an aggregate of inpatient admissions and observation stays. Avoidable hospital stays were defined using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Prevention Quality Indicators definition.20 Avoidable emergency department (ED) visits were defined using the New York University ED visit algorithm and subsequent algorithm patch.21,22 All differences between beneficiaries with and without HRSNs across the 4 categories were statistically significant, with P values <.001.