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NEWS: Lisa Hitchen Compulsory recording of patients’ ethnic details will help to show disease trends BMJ 2008; 336: 1039-f [Full text]

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Re: Compulsory reporting of patients' ethnic details

Celine M Aranjo   (10 May 2008)

Re: Compulsory reporting of patients' ethnic details 10 May 2008
Celine M Aranjo, Retired G.P. NSW, 2208, Australia Send response to journal: Re: Re: Compulsory reporting of patients' ethnic details	Dear Editor, I am in full agreement with this proposal. However, in this our 21st century, and with the long-standing migrations world wide over at least the past century, resulting in spread of what used to be 'characteristic ethnic' diseases and hereditary disorders, patient ethnicity could be found useful, albeit not essential. Competing interests: None declared