Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sohn, Min Woong ^a,b   Zhang, Huiyuan ^a,b   Arnold, Noreen ^c   Stroupe, Kevin ^a,b,c   Taylor, Brent C ^d   Wilt, Timothy J ^d,e   Hynes, Denise M ^a,c,f  

^a Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VA Information Resource Center   (United States)

^d Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MINORITY GROUP; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VETERAN;

EID: 33751212866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-4-7     Document Type: Article

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