Agreement between Administrative Data and Patients' Self-Reports of Race/Ethnicity

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1734-1739

  Kressin, Nancy R ^a   Chang, Bei Hung ^b   Hendricks, Ann ^b   Kazis, Lewis E ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 0642314509     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.10.1734     Document Type: Article

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