Race, ethnicity, and language data : standardization for health care quality improvement

Race, ethnicity, and language data : standardization for health care quality improvement /

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for th...

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Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement
Other Authors: Ulmer, Cheryl, McFadden, Bernadette, Nerenz, David R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009
Series:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Health services accessibility > Standards > United States.
Minorities > Medical care > Standards.
Race discrimination > United States.
Minorities.
Prejudices.
Healthcare Disparities
Health Services Accessibility > standards
Minority Health
Minority Groups
Prejudice
minorities.
United States
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Evidence of disparities among ethnicity groups
  • Defining categorization needs for race and ethnicity data
  • Defining language need and categories for collection
  • Improving data collection across the health care system
  • Implementation
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Legislation cited in report
  • Workshop agendas
  • Subcommittee member and staff biographies
  • Subcommittee template: developing a national standard set of granular ethnicity categories and a rollup scheme
  • Granular ethnicities with no determinate OMB race classification
  • Kaiser Permanente: evolution of data collection on race, ethnicity, and language preference information
  • Contra Costa Health Plan language assistance database and ethnicity categories
  • Subcommittee template: developing a national standard set of spoken language categories and coding.

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