Imputing missing race/ethnicity in pediatric electronic health records: Reducing bias with use of U.S. census location and surname data

Health Services Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 946-960

  Grundmeier, Robert W ^a   Song, Lihai ^a   Ramos, Mark J ^a   Fiks, Alexander G ^a   Elliott, Marc N ^b   Fremont, Allen ^b   Pace, Wilson ^c   Wasserman, Richard C ^d   Localio, Russell ^e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; Multiple imputation; race and ethnicity; U.S. Census location and surname data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SURNAME; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CENSUSES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NAMES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937971919     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12295     Document Type: Article

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