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Implementing Institute of Medicine Recommendations on Collection of Patient Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data in a Community Health Center
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 24, Number 2, May 2013
- pp. 875-884
- 10.1353/hpu.2013.0071
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The Institute for Family Health is one of the first health care organizations to implement the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations on collection of patient race, ethnicity, and language data as a means of identifying and addressing health disparities. This paper describes the implementation process and lessons learned from the project.