Waldo Daniel R
Health Care Financ Rev. 2004 Winter;26(2):61-72.
Medicare administrative data are fairly accurate in identifying people who affiliate with White or Black racial groups; but less so for other race groups or for Hispanic/Latino origin. Some differences were found between people who were identified as members of these other race groups and those who were missed by the administrative data. Although Medicare administrative files are a useful source of data for analysis of disparities in health care, researchers should be careful to use alternate data sources to test for potential differences between identified and unidentified members of racial and ethnic groups in the attributes being studied.
医疗保险管理数据在识别属于白人或黑人种族群体的人方面相当准确；但对于其他种族群体或西班牙裔/拉丁裔血统的人来说准确性较低。在被认定为这些其他种族群体成员的人和那些被管理数据遗漏的人之间发现了一些差异。尽管医疗保险管理档案是分析医疗保健差异的有用数据来源，但研究人员在使用替代数据源来测试所研究属性中已识别和未识别的种族和族裔群体成员之间的潜在差异时应谨慎。
