Concerns raised over incorrect ethnicity data in NHS hospital records Research suggests faults in NHS records may impact the identification of disease prevalence in different ethnic groups.
Up to 40% of people belonging to minorities could have their ethnicity wrongly recorded in their NHS hospital records with potentially profound implications for the analysis of inequalities in care quality or disease prevalence in different ethnic groups, research suggests.
Minority ethnic groups have been found to have different probabilities of developing different diseases and of surviving them but a paper published in the Royal Statistics Society’s (RSS) magazine Significance on Monday indicates that some analysis could have been based on flawed data. Continue reading... The Guardian
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