Identifying Core Behavioral and Psychosocial Data Elements for the Electronic Health Record, Executive Summary

Several institutes from the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with the Society of Behavioral Medicine are organizing an effort to evaluate and recommend actionable, patient-reported measures of health behaviors and psychosocial factors for use in primary care electronic health records (EHRs). In order to facilitate broad participation in the development of standard measures they are using a three-phase process of consensus building. The first phase involved convening a panel of subject matter experts who have suggested one or more reliable, practical measures in each subject domain that would be appropriate to utilize in adult primary care and . . .