Collecting information on race, hispanic ethnicity, and birthplace of cancer patients: Policies and practices in Connecticut hospitals

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-96

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Patient demographics; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL RECORD; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; PATIENT INFORMATION; RACE; SELF REPORT; STAFF TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

CONNECTICUT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 14644440793     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Coronado GD, Koepsell TD, Thompson B, et al. Assessing cervical cancer risk in Hispanics. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev. 2002;11: 979-984.
2. Miller BA, Kolonel LN, Bernstein L, et al. Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Cancer in the United States, 1988-1992. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute. NIH Publication No. 96-4104.
3. Ramirez AG, Suarez L, West DW, Chalela P, Presswood DT. Hispanics: are we being counted accurately? Challenges and recommendations. J Registry Management. 1999;26: 142-148.
4. Blustein J. The reliability of racial classifications in hospital discharge abstract data. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:1018-1021.
5. Trapido EJ, Key C. Final Report of Atlanta Symposium. Atlanta, Ga: North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Uniform Data Standards Committee: Subcommittee on Methodological Issues of Measuring Cancer among Hispanics; 1996. Available at: www.naaccr.org.
6. Gomez SL, Le GM, West DM, Satariano WA, O'Connor L. Hospital policy and practice regarding the collection of data on race, ethnicity, and birthplace. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1685-1688.
7. Hankey BF, Ries LA, Edwards BK. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program: a national resource, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1999;8:1117-1121.
8. Trapido EJ, Chen F, Davis K, Lewis N, MacKinnon JA. Cancer among Hispanic males in South Florida. Arch Intern Med. 1994;154:177-185.
9. American College of Surgeons (ACS). Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Manual. Rev ed. Chicago, Ill: ACS; 2000.
10. Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, et al, eds. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2000. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute; 2003. Available at: http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2000.
11. Swallen KC, West DW, Stewart SL, Glaser SL, Horn-Ross PL. Predictors of misclassification of Hispanic ethnicity in a population-based cancer registry. Ann Epidemiol. 1997;7: 200-206.
12. Perez-Stable EJ, Hiatt RA, Sabrogal F, Otero-Sabrogal R. Use of Spanish surnames to identify Latinos: comparison to self-identification. Monogr Natl Cancer Inst. 1995;18:11-15.
13. Hedeen AN, White E. Breast cancer size and stage in Hispanic American women, by birthplace: 1992-1995. Am J Public Health. 2001: 122-125.
14. Deapen D, Liu L, Perkins C, Bernstein L, Ross RK. Rapidly rising breast cancer incidence rates among Asian-American women. Int J Cancer. 2002;99:747-750.
15. Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2003.
16. Nerenz DR, Bonham VL, Green-Weir R, Joseph C, Gunter M. Eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in health care: can health plans generate reports? Health Aff. 2002;21:259-263.
17. Bierman AS, Lurie N, Collins KS, Eisenberg JM. Addressing racial and ethnic barriers to effective health care: the need for better data. Health Aff. 2002;21:91-102.
18. Portes A, Rumbault RG. Immigrant America: A Portrait. 2nd ed. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press; 1996.
19. Polednak AP. Agreement in race-ethnicity coding between a hospital discharge database and another database. Ethn Dis. 2001;11:24-29.