01219nas a2200169 4500000000100000008004100001260003400042653005700076653002100133100001300154700001300167700001500180700001300195245008000208520073600288022002501024 2020 d bOxford University Press (OUP) 10 aPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 10 aGeneral Medicine 1 aKhunti K 1 aRouten A 1 aBanerjee A 1 aPareek M 00 aThe need for improved collection and coding of ethnicity in health research 3 aCoronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has exposed the need for improved collection and coding of ethnicity, despite years of debate on the issue.1,2 A review found only 7% of Covid-19 research papers and surveillance reports presented ethnicity-disaggregated data.3 Complete, detailed and accurate ethnicity data are required for clinicians, researchers and policy makers to further examine outcomes and their causes, and manage healthcare needs related to Covid-19 in ethnic minority populations.
The completeness of ethnicity data within healthcare and routine databases has been poor historically. For example, only 27% of patients in Clinical Practice Research Datalink had ethnicity recorded between 1990 and 2012.... a1741-3842, 1741-3850