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Comparison of ethnic group classification using naming analysis and routinely collected data: application to cancer incidence trends in children and young people

OBJECTIVE: Inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) ethnicity data are available but not always collected and data quality can be unreliable. This may have implications when assessing outcomes by ethnicity. An alternative method for assigning ethnicity is using naming algorithms. We investigate i...

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Autores principales: Smith, Lesley, Norman, Paul, Kapetanstrataki, Melpo, Fleming, Sarah, Fraser, Lorna K, Parslow, Roger C, Feltbower, Richard G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5623541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28947444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016332