Race and Ethnicity Data Improvement Toolkit

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The toolkit is designed for statewide data organizations that collect hospital administrative data, such as those participating in AHRQ抯 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. However, the toolkit may also be useful for a variety of others with a role in improving the collection of R/E/L in hospital data, such as hospital leadership, quality improvement personnel, clinicians, patients and consumers, registration and admitting departments, and hospital IT departments.</div><br> <div class="pagetext">The toolkit is based on the materials developed by, and the experiences of, three <a href="/web/20150905213711/http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/grants.jsp">AHRQ Enhanced State Data</a> grantees from <a href="about_grants_re.jsp#California">California</a>, <a href="about_grants_re.jsp#NewMexico">New Mexico</a>, and the <a href="about_grants_re.jsp#Northwest">Northwest</a> region (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)</a> that embarked on R/E/L data quality improvement projects. Enhancements included making substantial, sustainable improvements to the reporting of R/E/L data among patients in California抯 hospitals; improving the quality of race and ethnicity data in hospital discharge databases by revising the New Mexico administrative code to mandate race, ethnicity, and tribal identifier data reporting; and conducting record linkages with an array of health-related data systems in a three-state region in the Pacific Northwest to identify and, in some cases, augment racial misclassification and improve disease/mortality estimates.</div> <br> <div class="pagetext"> <ul> <li><a href="case_for_re.jsp">The Case for Improving Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data</a><br></li> <li><a href="data_improve_edu.jsp">Data Improvement through Education and Training of Hospital Staff</a><br></li> <li><a href="data_improve_linkages.jsp">Data Improvement through Data Linkages and Data Validation</a><br></li> <li><a href="about_grants_re.jsp">About the Grants (includes tools developed by each grantee)</a></li> </ul></div> <br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> </table> <hr width="75%" align="center" class="hrruleblue"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" class="citationtext"> Internet Citation: Race and Ethnicity Data Improvement Toolkit. 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