Ethnicity recording in primary care computerised medical record systems: an ontological approach

BACKGROUND: Ethnicity recording within primary care computerised medical record (CMR) systems is suboptimal, exacerbated by tangled taxonomies within current coding systems.Objective To develop a method for extending ethnicity identification using routinely collected data. METHODS: We used an ontolo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tippu, Z, Correa, A, Liyanage, H, Burleigh, D, McGovern, A, Van Vlymen, J, Jones, S, De Lusignan, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT 2017