Background: As sexual history encompasses sensitive information about private lives, patients as well as providers may find it difficult to discuss during patient-provider encounters. Objectives: To ascertain the incidence of absent documentation about sexual history among patients at seven adult hospitals of a multi-hospital medical center during the year 2022. Materials and Methods: The multi-hospital medical center information technology team ran a search query in electronic medical records to extract census of unique patient identifications quantifying absent documentation rates about social history categories of Tobacco, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Home/Environment, Sexual, Nutrition/Health, Exercise, Employment/School, Other. Results: Among the patients managed in the year 2022 (n=25005), Other and Sexual social history categories were least frequently documented (1-2%). Contrarily, Home/Environment and Tobacco social history categories were most frequently documented (81-82%). Conclusion: Among the patients managed at the multi-hospital medical center, sexual history was one of the least frequently documented social history during the year 2022.

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