Involuntary Medical Hold: The Next Step in Mental Health Parity?
The current system of extrajudicial medical holds does not protect the rights of those who lack capacity to care for themselves due a medical condition.
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The current system of extrajudicial medical holds does not protect the rights of those who lack capacity to care for themselves due a medical condition.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) data are increasingly being used to monitor population health on account of their timeliness, granularity, and large sample sizes. While EHR data are often sufficient to estimate disease prevalence and trends for large geographic areas, the same accuracy and precision may not carry over for smaller areas that are sparsely represented by non-random samples. We developed small-area estimation models using a combination of EHR data drawn from MDPHnet, an EHR-based public health surveillance network in Massachusetts, the American Community Survey, and state hospitali...