Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Assess Residential Mobility Among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration

Author:

Wang Karen H.1,Hendrickson Zoé M.2,Miller Mary L.1,Abel Erica A.13,Skanderson Melissa3,Erdos Joseph13,Womack Julie A.34,Brandt Cynthia A.13,Desai Mayur5,Han Ling1

Affiliation:

1. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven

2. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

3. VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT

4. Yale School of Nursing, Orange, CT

5. Yale University School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven

Abstract

Background: Residential mobility, or a change in residence, can influence health care utilization and outcomes. Health systems can leverage their patients’ residential addresses stored in their electronic health records (EHRs) to better understand the relationships among patients’ residences, mobility, and health. The Veteran Health Administration (VHA), with a unique nationwide network of health care systems and integrated EHR, holds greater potential for examining these relationships. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis to examine the association of sociodemographics, clinical conditions, and residential mobility. We defined residential mobility by the number of VHA EHR residential addresses identified for each patient in a 1-year period (1/1–12/31/2018), with 2 different addresses indicating one move. We used generalized logistic regression to model the relationship between a priori selected correlates and residential mobility as a multinomial outcome (0, 1, ≥2 moves). Results: In our sample, 84.4% (n=3,803,475) veterans had no move, 13.0% (n=587,765) had 1 move, and 2.6% (n=117,680) had ≥2 moves. In the multivariable analyses, women had greater odds of moving [aOR=1.11 (95% CI: 1.10,1.12) 1 move; 1.27 (1.25,1.30) ≥2 moves] than men. Veterans with substance use disorders also had greater odds of moving [aOR=1.26 (1.24,1.28) 1 move; 1.77 (1.72,1.81) ≥2 moves]. Discussion: Our study suggests about 16% of veterans seen at VHA had at least 1 residential move in 2018. VHA data can be a resource to examine relationships between place, residential mobility, and health.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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