Weinick Robin M, Caglia Jacquelyn M, Friedman Elisa, Flaherty Katherine
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Sep-Oct;26(5):1293-302. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.1293.
Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of health care is a national policy priority; collecting race and ethnicity data from patients is a necessary first step in identifying and addressing these disparities. Recognizing this, Boston and Massachusetts recently enacted race and ethnicity data collection regulations affecting all acute care hospitals in the city and state. This paper describes the regulations and early lessons learned from implementing these data collection efforts in three areas: the design of data collection tools, uses of the data for eliminating disparities, and the role of the policy process in such efforts.
减少医疗保健质量方面的种族和族裔差异是一项国家政策重点；从患者那里收集种族和族裔数据是识别和解决这些差异的必要第一步。认识到这一点，波士顿和马萨诸塞州最近颁布了影响该市和该州所有急症护理医院的种族和族裔数据收集规定。本文描述了这些规定以及在三个方面实施这些数据收集工作所获得的早期经验教训：数据收集工具的设计、利用数据消除差异以及政策过程在这些工作中的作用。
