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Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement.

Title Race, ethnicity, and language data : standardization for health care quality improvement / Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Board on Health Care Services ; Cheryl Ulmer, Bernadette McFadden, and David R. Nerenz, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 181 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
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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
Summary 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 those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject 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.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Prejudices
Minorities
Discrimination in medical care
Race discrimination
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Ulmer, Cheryl.
McFadden, Bernadette.
Nerenz, David R.
LC no. 2010277676
ISBN 9780309140133
0309140137
9786612454936
6612454938