Researching disparities: strategies for primary data collection.
Comparatively little disparities research to date has focused on emergency medicine. However, the body of disparities research developed in other areas of health care has identified a number of issues that are directly applicable. To promote research on disparities in emergency medicine, this article addresses several of these issues related to collecting and classifying data on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status and selected methodologic issues that are particularly important for evaluating disparities.
Weinick
Robin M
RM
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. rweinick@ahrq.gov
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States