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Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

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ISBN10: 0309140129
ISBN13: 9780309140126
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: Dec 30 2009
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.44 Depth: 10.95
Language: English

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data.
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.

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