Enhancing Public Hospitals' Reporting of Data on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care
This report from The Commonwealth Fund investigates whether current public reporting efforts could be used to report data by race or ethnicity and thus spur efforts to reduce disparities.
Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
This report from a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program offers tips to help hospitals collect data on patient race, ethnicity and language to improve health care quality.
 Health care data needs assessment survey
This white paper reports results of CHI's 2005 survey about the state of health and health care data in Colorado. Users of health statistics say available health data often are difficult to understand and/or use or hard to make relevant to the local level.
Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Disparities Toolkit
Affiliated with the American Hospital Association, this HRET tool provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.
The Legality of Collecting and Disclosing Foundation Patient Race and Ethnicity Data, George Washington University Department of Health Policy
This 2006 plicy brief, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, analyzes the following question: Whether the collection of patient data by race or ethnicity, as part of a program of quality improvement, violates the law.
Obtaining Data on Patient Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language in Health Care Organizations: Current Challenges and Proposed Solutions, Health Research and Educational Trust
This 2006 article provides an overview of why health care organizations should collect race, ethnicity, and language data, reviews current practices, discusses the rationale for collecting this information directly from patients and describes barriers and solutions.
Enhancing Public Hospitals' Reporting of Data on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care
This Commonwealth Fund report assesses the ability of hospitals with large minority populations to use existing quality-of-care measures to reduce racial/ethnic disparities.
Public Health Information & Data Tutorial
This tutorial provides instruction for members of the public health workforce on issues related to information access and management. It is designed to help users stay informed of developments and events related to public health; find reliable and authoritative consumer-oriented materials to support health education; retrieve statistical information and access data sets relevant to public health; and retrieve and evaluate information in support of evidence-based practice.
Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC)
ResDAC is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contractor that provides free assistance to academic, government and nonprofit researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data for their research.
Strategies to Improve External Cause-of-Injury Coding in State-Based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems
Recommendations of the CDC Workgroup for Improvement of External Cause-of-Injury Coding. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workgroup discusses the value of using high-quality E-coding to collect data in state-based morbidity data systems.
Survey Data Training Course
This training module is designed to help users read and interpret the information provided in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Summary Prevalence Reports,State-Specific Prevalence Tables and Prevalence Data available on the Internet.
Talking About Statistics
This section of the Talking Quality site defines quality measures, summary scores, and basic statistical concepts in simple, user-friendly language.
2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties
Classifications of Diseases and Functioning Disability
WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications for North America
International Classification of Diseases
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
The WHO Family of International Classifications
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCAs)
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
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