Ethnicity data resource in population-wide health records: completeness, coverage and granularity of diversity

Abstract Intersectional social determinants including ethnicity are vital in health research. We curated a population-wide data resource of self-identified ethnicity data from over 60 million individuals in England primary care, linking it to hospital records. We assessed ethnicity data in terms of...

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Main Authors: Marta Pineda-Moncusí, Freya Allery, Antonella Delmestri, Thomas Bolton, John Nolan, Johan H. Thygesen, Alex Handy, Amitava Banerjee, Spiros Denaxas, Christopher Tomlinson, Alastair K. Denniston, Cathie Sudlow, Ashley Akbari, Angela Wood, Gary S. Collins, Irene Petersen, Laura C. Coates, Kamlesh Khunti, Daniel Prieto-sAlhambra, Sara Khalid, on behalf of the CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Scientific Data
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02958-1