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Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs

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 federal guideline. We investigated the...

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Autores principales: Sohn, Min-Woong, Zhang, Huiyuan, Arnold, Noreen, Stroupe, Kevin, Taylor, Brent C, Wilt, Timothy J, Hynes, Denise M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16824220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-4-7