Capturing Individual-level Social Determinants from Clinical Text.

Knowledge of social determinants of health (SDOH), which refer to nonmedical factors influencing health outcomes, can help providers improve patient care. However, SDOH are often documented in unstructured notes, making them more inaccessible. Although previous works have attempted SDOH extraction from clinical notes, most efforts defined SDOH more narrowly and focused on the note's social history (SH) section, where social factors are traditionally documented.