Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although racial and ethnic identities are associated with a multitude of disparate medical outcomes, surveillance of these subpopulations in the occupational clinic setting could benefit enormously from a more detailed and nuanced recognition of racial and ethnic identity.

Methods

The research group designed a brief questionnaire to capture several dimensions of this identity and collected data from patients seen for work-related conditions in four occupational medicine clinics from May 2019 through March 2020. Responses were used to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of extant racial/ethnic identity data within our electronic health records system, and were compared to participants' self-reported industry and occupation, coded according to North American I

SUBMITTER: Montoya-Barthelemy AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9314926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature