BMJ 2008;336:1039 (10 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39567.616146.4E
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Compulsory recording of patients’ ethnic details will help to show disease trends
Lisa Hitchen
1 London
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A research team is calling for GPs to record details of patients’ language, religion, and country of birth routinely to help identify trends in diseases in different ethnic populations.
A study by universities at Warwick, Leicester, and Birmingham has found that only 10% of all patients had their ethnic group recorded in a general practice database. The importance of collecting such data has been recognised by the government, and GPs can now earn one point under the quality and outcomes framework for recording the ethnic group of new patients. But most GPs still fail to do so, the researchers say.
The study, commissioned by Cancer Research UK and yet to be published, considered 15 058 patients enrolled at one general practice in Nuneaton. Since April 2006 the practice has been collecting data on the ethnic group of newly enrolled patients. The 13 578 (90%) patients enrolled before then had not
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