ArticlesThe mandatory collection of data on ethnic group of inpatients: experience of NHS trusts in England in the first reporting years
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2011, Public HealthCitation Excerpt :Due to the potential sensitive use in the targeting of individuals, filtering questions have been introduced, ensuring that questionnaires are sent to those of Polish ethnicity, thus illustrating the need for care before using Onomap and other name-based ethnicity classifications. There is a policy drive to improve ethnicity recording in routinely collected health datasets.3,11–13 Nevertheless, improvements are unlikely to extend to all disease registers and administrative datasets in the near future, and the need for alternative means to identify population groups by ethnicity remain.
Names-based classification of accident and emergency department users
2011, Health and PlaceCitation Excerpt :We are aware, however, that analysis of ethnic differences in healthcare utilisation using routinely collected data is far from straightforward, because of enduring issues of data incompleteness. Such issues frustrate efforts to extend and improve coverage of hard to reach groups (Aspinall, 2000; Kumarapeli et al., 2006; Raleigh, 2008; Sangowawa and Bhopal, 2000). The contribution of this research is to classify individual health records according to patient cultural, linguistic and ethnic group, using information derived from given and family names, in order to increase our understanding of differential healthcare usage according to ethnicity.
Harms and benefits: Collecting ethnicity data in a clinical context
2009, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :The assumption is that providing equitable, quality care requires race and ethnicity data, but to date research has not shown that knowledge about health inequities leads to better healthcare services at the individual level. Indeed in the UK, Aspinall (2000) found that little use was made of ethnicity data collected in healthcare settings. Aspinall and Anionwu (2002) reported that although the ethnic identities of patients were obtained for an annual total in England of over 11 million admissions, the information has only been used to produce indices of quality, not to improve the quality of care provided.
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