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National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias
Patient records serve many purposes, one of which includes monitoring the quality of care provided that they can be analyzed through coding and documentation. Z-codes can provide additional information beyond a specific clinical disorder that may still warrant treatment. Social Determinants of Healt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9973443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36855256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000112 |
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author | Geskey, Joseph M. Kodish-Wachs, Jodi Blonsky, Heather Hohman, Samuel F. Meurer, Steve |
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description | Patient records serve many purposes, one of which includes monitoring the quality of care provided that they can be analyzed through coding and documentation. Z-codes can provide additional information beyond a specific clinical disorder that may still warrant treatment. Social Determinants of Health have specific Z-codes that may help clinicians address social factors that may contribute to patients’ health care outcomes. However, there are Z-codes that specify patient noncompliance which has a pejorative connotation that may stigmatize patients and prevent clinicians from examining nonadherence from a social determinant of health perspective. A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed to examine the associations of patient and encounter characteristics with the coding of patient noncompliance. Included in the study were all patients >18 years of age who were admitted to hospitals participating in the Vizient Clinical Data Base (CDB) between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Almost 9 million US inpatients were included in the study. Of those, 6.3% had a noncompliance Z-code. Use of noncompliance Z-codes was associated with the following odds estimate ratio in decreasing order: the presence of a social determinant of health (odds ratio [OR], 4.817), African American race (OR, 2.010), Medicaid insurance (OR, 1.707), >3 chronic medical conditions (OR, 1.546), living in an economically distressed community (OR, 1.320), male gender (OR, 1.313), nonelective admission status (OR, 1.245), age <65 years (OR, 1.234). More than 1 in 15 patient hospitalizations had a noncompliance code. Factors associated with these codes are difficult, if not impossible, for patients to modify. Disproportionate representation of Africa-Americans among hospitalizations with noncompliance coding is concerning and urgently deserves further exploration to determine the degree to which it may be a product of clinician bias, especially if the term noncompliance prevents health care providers from looking into socioeconomic factors that may contribute to patient nonadherence. |
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spelling | pubmed-99734432023-03-01 National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias Geskey, Joseph M. Kodish-Wachs, Jodi Blonsky, Heather Hohman, Samuel F. Meurer, Steve Am J Med Qual Article Patient records serve many purposes, one of which includes monitoring the quality of care provided that they can be analyzed through coding and documentation. Z-codes can provide additional information beyond a specific clinical disorder that may still warrant treatment. Social Determinants of Health have specific Z-codes that may help clinicians address social factors that may contribute to patients’ health care outcomes. However, there are Z-codes that specify patient noncompliance which has a pejorative connotation that may stigmatize patients and prevent clinicians from examining nonadherence from a social determinant of health perspective. A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed to examine the associations of patient and encounter characteristics with the coding of patient noncompliance. Included in the study were all patients >18 years of age who were admitted to hospitals participating in the Vizient Clinical Data Base (CDB) between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Almost 9 million US inpatients were included in the study. Of those, 6.3% had a noncompliance Z-code. Use of noncompliance Z-codes was associated with the following odds estimate ratio in decreasing order: the presence of a social determinant of health (odds ratio [OR], 4.817), African American race (OR, 2.010), Medicaid insurance (OR, 1.707), >3 chronic medical conditions (OR, 1.546), living in an economically distressed community (OR, 1.320), male gender (OR, 1.313), nonelective admission status (OR, 1.245), age <65 years (OR, 1.234). More than 1 in 15 patient hospitalizations had a noncompliance code. Factors associated with these codes are difficult, if not impossible, for patients to modify. Disproportionate representation of Africa-Americans among hospitalizations with noncompliance coding is concerning and urgently deserves further exploration to determine the degree to which it may be a product of clinician bias, especially if the term noncompliance prevents health care providers from looking into socioeconomic factors that may contribute to patient nonadherence. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-03-01 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9973443/ /pubmed/36855256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000112 Text en © The Authors 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | Article Geskey, Joseph M. Kodish-Wachs, Jodi Blonsky, Heather Hohman, Samuel F. Meurer, Steve National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title | National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title_full | National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title_fullStr | National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title_full_unstemmed | National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title_short | National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias |
title_sort | national documentation and coding practices of noncompliance: the importance of social determinants of health and the stigma of african-american bias |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9973443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36855256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JMQ.0000000000000112 |
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