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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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- 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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2058-4563
- ISSN:
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2058-4555
- Pmid:
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28346128
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English
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pubs:1013753
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uuid:8ff76517-636b-4bf1-bad9-dfefb9cf4497
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pubs:1013753
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1013753
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2019-11-19
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- Tippu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT under Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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