Race and ethnicity coding agreement between hospitals and between hospital and death data

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a,b   Meldrum, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental population groups; Data collection; Death certificates; Hispanic Americans; Hospital information systems

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MORTALITY; NEGRO; RACE;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORTALITY;

EID: 41449104325     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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