Race, ethnicity, and language data : standardization for health care quality improvement / Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Board on Health Care Services ; Cheryl Ulmer, Bernadette McFadden, and David R. Nerenz, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for th...

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