Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom's Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)

• Main Authors: Suhail I. Shiekh (Author), Mia Harley (Author), Rebecca E. Ghosh (Author), Mark Ashworth (Author), Puja Myles (Author), Helen P. Booth (Author), Eleanor L. Axson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background This descriptive study assessed the completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom (UK) Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) primary care databases alone and, for those patients registered with a GP in England, when linked to se...