Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement. Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2007

摘要

This report offers an approach to identifying racial, ethnic, and language categories that bear on disparities in health care and health outcomes. Extending beyond the broad racial and ethnic categories used by the Office of Management and Budget, this report provides a more granular classification of ethnicity and language needs. This standardized approach to classification will both help measure progress in eliminating disparities and assure that comparisons across different settings are based on similar groupings of individuals.