When Race/Ethnicity Data Are Lacking Using Advanced Indirect Estimation Methods to Measure Disparities

• Main Author: Fremont, Allen (auth)
• Other Authors: Weissman, Joel S. (auth), Hoch, Emily (auth), Elliott, Marc N. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2016
• Subjects: Health systems & services; Public health & preventive medicine; Clinical & internal medicine; Social research & statistics; Health Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This report describes the use of indirect estimation methods, such as Bayesian Indirect Surname Geocoding, to estimate racial/ethnic populations in health care records, which often lack such data, and the use of such methods to measure disparities in quality of care across racial/ethnic groups, as w...