Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

by Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309140129
• ISBN13: 9780309140126
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 286 Pages