Race, ethnicity, and language data
Subtitle: standardization for health care quality improvement
By: Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Board on Health Care Services ; Cheryl Ulmer, Bernadette McFadden, and David R. Nerenz, editors ;  Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Board on Health Care Services
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780309140126
Other titles: Race, ethnicity, language data
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Evidence of disparities among ethnicity groups; title: Defining categorization needs for race and ethnicity data; title: Defining language need and categories for collection; title: Improving data collection across the health care system; title: Implementation; title: Appendixes: A. Acronyms and abbreviations; title: B. Legislation cited in report; title: C. Workshop agendas; title: D. Subcommittee member and staff biographies; title: E. Subcommittee template : developing a national standard set of granular ethnicity categories and a rollup scheme; title: F. Granular ethnicities with no determinate OMB race classification; title: G. Kaiser Permanente : evolution of data collection on race, ethnicity, and language preference information; title: H. Contra Costa Health Plan language assistance database and ethnicity categories; title: I. Subcommittee template : developing a national standard set of spoken language categories and coding.