TY - JOUR
KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
KW - General Medicine
AU - Khunti K
AU - Routen A
AU - Banerjee A
AU - Pareek M
AB - Coronavirus 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.<br>

<br>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....
BT - Journal of Public Health
DO - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa198
LA - eng
N2 - Coronavirus 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.<br>

<br>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....
PB - Oxford University Press (OUP)
PY - 2020
T2 - Journal of Public Health
TI - The need for improved collection and coding of ethnicity in health research
SN - 1741-3842, 1741-3850
ER -