Background: Collection of accurate Hispanic ethnicity data is critical to evaluate disparities
in health and health care. However, this information is often inconsistently recorded in …

Objective Racial and ethnic disparities are commonplace in health care. Research often
relies on sociodemographic information recorded in the electronic health record (EHR). Little …

Objective We aimed to address deficiencies in structured electronic health record (EHR)
data for race and ethnicity by identifying black and Hispanic patients from unstructured …

Background: Our goal was to identify racial and ethnic disparities in health outcome and
care measures in Wisconsin. Methods: We used electronic health record data from 25 health …

Background Data collection on race and ethnicity is critical in the assessment of racial
disparities related to health. Studies comparing clinical and administrative data show …

Objective. To assess the effectiveness of a Spanish surname match for improving the
identification of Hispanic women in Medicare administrative data in which Hispanics are …

Hispanic Veterans are the largest growing racial and ethnic minority group in the Veterans
Health Administration (VA) system. Though recent research has found increasing suicide …

The study of cancer in Hispanics in the United States has been hindered by misclassification
of Hispanics as non-Hispanic and by the convenient practice of aggregating the diverse …

Objectives: Medicare administrative and claims files maintained by the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) are frequently used to examine racial and ethnic disparities in …

Abstract Background: Hispanics and Latinos (Hispanics) are estimated to represent 17.7%
of the US population. Published national health estimates stratified by Hispanic origin and …