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Accuracy of Race and Ethnicity Data in the Pediatric Electronic Health Record: A Concordance and System Adequacy Study

Health Equity
Introduction: Conventional race and ethnicity categories and analysis are reductive and prone to inaccuracy. Because race and ethnicity data validity is essential to health equity efforts, we measured the accuracy of race and ethnicity data in a ...
John D. Cowden, Rachel Drake, Jessi Johnson, Katiana Kelty, Mehwish Ahmed   +4 more
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Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Population Health Metrics, 2006
Background Patient race in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) information system was previously recorded based on an administrative or clinical employee's observation. Since 2003, the VA started to collect self-reported race in compliance with a new
Stroupe Kevin, Arnold Noreen, Zhang Huiyuan, Sohn Min-Woong, Taylor Brent C, Wilt Timothy J, Hynes Denise M   +6 more
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Impact of Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status on Risk-Adjusted Readmission Rates [PDF]

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2016
Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), hospitals with excess readmissions for select conditions and procedures are penalized.
Grant R. Martsolf PhD, Marguerite L. Barrett MS, Audrey J. Weiss PhD, Raynard Washington PhD, Claudia A. Steiner MD, Ateev Mehrotra MD, Rosanna M. Coffey PhD   +6 more
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Minutes: Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity, January 21, 2021

, 2021
University of Minnesota Duluth. Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity. (2021). Minutes: Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity, January 21, 2021.
University of Minnesota Duluth. Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity
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Association Between Neurofilament Light Chain and Real‐World Ambulatory Function in Progressive MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a biomarker of neuroaxonal injury in multiple sclerosis (MS), yet associations with functional outcomes remain unclear. Longitudinal associations between serum NfL (sNfL) and daily step count (STEPS) from wearable devices were assessed in a large international progressive MS cohort.
Gabby B. Joseph, Megan McCune, Riley Bove, Ahmed Abdelhak, Bruce A. C. Cree, Valerie J. Block   +5 more
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Non-hispanic whites have higher risk for pulmonary impairment from pulmonary tuberculosis

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Disparities in outcomes associated with race and ethnicity are well documented for many diseases and patient populations. Tuberculosis (TB) disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minority populations ...
Pasipanodya Jotam G, Vecino Edgar, Miller Thaddeus L, Munguia Guadalupe, Drewyer Gerry, Fernandez Michel, Slocum Philip, Weis Stephen E   +7 more
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Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity Banners

, 2019
University of Minnesota Duluth. Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity. (2019). Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity Banners.
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Risk of Retinopathy Associated with Long‐Term Use of Hydroxychloroquine in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to estimate the prevalence and cumulative incidence of hydroxychloroquine retinopathy (HCQ‐R) and its risk factors among patients receiving long‐term HCQ with rheumatic diseases through a systematic review and meta‐analysis of observational studies that used spectral‐domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) for screening ...
Narsis Daftarian, Chloe Yue, Steve D Levasseur, Hui Xie, J. Antonio Avina‐Zubieta   +4 more
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Persisting problems related to race and ethnicity in public health and epidemiology research

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2013
A recent and comprehensive review of the use of race and ethnicity in research that address health disparities in epidemiology and public health is provided.
Jean-Claude Moubarac
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source