Central Distributor SID: Description of Data Elements

RACE_EDIT - Race edit checks

Documentation Sections:

General Notes

Uniform Values

State Specific Notes

General Notes

HCUP flags the four situations as potential signals that the coding of race/ethnicity at a hospital is limited. The categories are assigned hierarchically from 1 to 4 and are mutually exclusive.

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Uniform Values

Variable Description Value Value Description RACE_EDIT Race edit checks 0 Hospital passed race/ethnicity edit check 1 Total records for the hospital are greater than 2,500 in a year and all patients have race/ethnicity coded as White 2 More than 30 percent of records in the hospital have race/ethnicity coded as Other 3 More than 50 percent of records in the hospital have race/ethnicity coded as missing or as an invalid response 4 No records in a hospital have race/ethnicity coded as Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, or Alaska Native/ American Indian . Missing

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State Specific Notes

None

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