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Article: Obtaining data on patient race, ethnicity, and primary language in health care organizations: current challenges and proposed solutions.(Special Section Race and Ethnicity)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Numerous studies document that racial and ethnic minorities often receive lower quality care than nonminorities. Although aggregate national data are important, sample sizes often limit their usefulness to only broad racial and ethnic groups. In addition, the data in these surveys may come from records rather than direct interviews of individuals and the information may be based on the observation of the person filling out the record. All these factors leave the quality and consistency of the data questionable. Although much information on health care comes from health care organizations (HCOs) (hospitals, health plans, and medical groups), data on race, ethnicity, and ...
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