PMID: 7580590Oct 14, 1995Paper

Department of Health's requirement for mandatory collection of data on ethnic group of inpatients

BMJ : British Medical Journal
P J Aspinall

Abstract

On 1 April the Department of Health introduced the mandatory collection of data on the ethnic group of patients admitted to hospital. Its coding was based on a national minimum standard for classifying ethnic groups, ostensibly using the categories in the 1991 census. In the census, however, one in four people from ethnic groups other than white, including many of mixed parentage, provided non-standard responses to the question on ethnic group. The Department of Health's standard does not include provision for respondents to write in a description of their ethnic group, and this has produced a flawed system out of step with current practice on collection of data on ethnic group. Different methods of analysis preclude comparison with census statistics, and the difficulties in aggregating more detailed local categories to the standard raise concerns about consistency of reporting and quality of the data.

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Jul 30, 1994·BMJ : British Medical Journal·P A Senior, R Bhopal

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Sep 1, 1997·Social Science & Medicine·P J Aspinall
Sep 28, 2007·PLoS Medicine·George T H EllisonPaul Martin
Dec 11, 2013·Journal of Public Health·Rohini MathurLiam Smeeth
Jan 11, 2005·Clinics in Geriatric Medicine·Irene J Higginson, Jonathan Koffman
Apr 27, 2010·European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing : Journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology·Umesh ChauhanMark Hann
Apr 1, 2011·The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society·Ala Szczepura
Sep 28, 2018·European Journal of Public Health·Nazmy VillarroelRaj S Bhopal

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