Validation of Self-Reported Race in a Canadian Provincial Renal Administrative Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Administrative data are commonly used to study clinical outcomes in renal disease. Race is an important determinant of renal health delivery and outcomes in Canada but is not validated in most administrative data, and the correlation with census-based definitions of race is unknown.

Objectives

Validation of self-reported race (SRR) in a Canadian provincial renal administrative database (Patient Records and Outcome Management Information System [PROMIS]) and comparison with the Canadian census categories of race.

Design

Prospective patient survey study to validate SRR in PROMIS.

Setting

British Columbia, Canada.

Patients

Adult patients registered in PROMIS.

Measurements

Survey SRR was used as gold standard to validate SRR in PROMIS. Self

SUBMITTER: Waheed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6604118 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature