Electronic Health Records and Transgender Patients—Practical Recommendations for the Collection of Gender Identity Data

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 843-847

  Deutsch, Madeline B ^a   Buchholz, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic health records; gender identity; legal sex; preferred name; preferred pronoun; transgender

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRIVER LICENCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; REGISTRATION; TRANSGENDER; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MANAGEMENT; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARDS;

DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84929843202     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3148-7     Document Type: Article

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