Audit of ethnicity data in the Waikato Hospital Patient Management System and Trauma Registry: pilot of the Hospital Ethnicity Data Audit Toolkit.

CONCLUSIONS: The degree of misclassification of Māori ethnicity data among patients in the Waikato Trauma Registry and the Waikato Hospital patient management system highlights a need for improvements to how ethnicity data is captured within these databases and potentially many other similar entities collecting ethnicity data in New Zealand. The release of revised standardised protocols for the collection of ethnicity data is timely given the recent establishment of a national trauma registry. Without quality data, the opportunity to investigate and address ethnic inequities in trauma incidence and management is greatly compromised. PMID: 30286062 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research