Comparison of ethnic group classification using naming analysis and routinely collected data: application to cancer incidence trends in children and young people.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) ethnicity data are available but not always collected and data quality can be unreliable. This may have implications when assessing outcomes by ethnicity. An alternative method for assigning ethnicity is using naming algorithms. We investigate if the association between ethnicity and cancer incidence varied dependent on how ethnic group was assigned.

Design

Population-based cancer registry cohort study.

Setting

Yorkshire, UK.

Participants

Cancer registrations from 1998 to 2009 in children and young people (0-29 years) from a specialist cancer register in Yorkshire, UK (n=3998) were linked to inpatient HES data to obtain recorded ethnicity. Patients' names, recorded in the cancer register, were matched to an

SUBMITTER: Smith L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623541 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature