Developing an Algorithm for Combining Race and Ethnicity Data Sources in the Veterans Health Administration.

CONCLUSIONS: We developed an algorithm of data source precedence in the VHA that improves the accuracy of the identification of historically under-identified minorities: (1) SHEP, (2) CDW, (3) Department of Defense's VADIR, and (4) Medicare. PMID: 31603222 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research