Collection of Gender Identity Data Using Electronic Medical Records: Survey of Current End-user Practices

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 657-663

  Deutsch, Madeline B ^a,b   Keatley, JoAnne ^c   Sevelius, Jae ^c   Shade, Starley B ^d  

^a The Clinical Lead Center of Excellence for Transgender Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; MeSH terms: statistics and numerical data; Transgender persons

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; METHODS; STANDARDS; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

EID: 84908873969     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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