Collecting patient race/ethnicity and primary language data in ambulatory care settings: A case study in methodology

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1750-1761

  Palaniappan, Latha P ^a   Wong, Eric C ^a   Shin, Jessica J ^a   Moreno, Maria R ^b   Otero Sabogal, Regina ^c  

^a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SUTTER HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Health care organizations and systems; Quality of care patient safety (measurement); Racial ethnic differences in health and health care; Survey research and questionnaire design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; TELEPHONE;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE;

EID: 69749128208     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00992.x     Document Type: Article

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