The expanded racial and ethnic codes in the Medicare data files: Their completeness of coverage and accuracy

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 712-716

  Lauderdale, Diane S ^a   Goldberg, Jack ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Vietnam Era Twin Registry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; DATA BASE; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICARE; MIGRATION; PATIENT CODING; RACE;

EID: 0029864787     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.86.5.712     Document Type: Article

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