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Ethnicity recording in primary care computerised medical record systems: an ontological approach

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BACKGROUND: Ethnicity recording within primary care computerised medical record (CMR) systems is suboptimal, exacerbated by tangled taxonomies within current coding systems.Objective To develop a method for extending ethnicity identification using routinely collected data. METHODS: We used an ontological method to maximise the reliability and prevalence of ethnicity information in the Royal College of General Practitioner's Research and Surveillance database. Clinical codes were either direct...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.14236/jhi.v23i4.920

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
Publisher:
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Journal:
Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics More from this journal
Volume:
23
Issue:
4
Pages:
799–806
Publication date:
2017-03-14
Acceptance date:
2016-12-13
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EISSN:
2058-4563
ISSN:
2058-4555
Pmid:
28346128
Language:
English
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pubs:1013753
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uuid:8ff76517-636b-4bf1-bad9-dfefb9cf4497
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pubs:1013753
Source identifiers:
1013753
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2019-11-19

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