Optimizing Data on Race and Ethnicity for Veterans Affairs Patients.

Talya PeltzmanKorie RiceKenneth T JonesDonna L WashingtonBrian Shiner

Published in: Military medicine (2022)

Combining multiple sources to generate race and ethnicity values improves data accuracy among VA patients. Based on the overall agreement with self-reported data, we recommend using non-missing values from sources in the following order to fill in race values-SHEP, CMS, CDW, MedSAS, and VADIR-and in the following order to fill in ethnicity values-SHEP, CDW, MedSAS, VADIR, and CMS.

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