New Mexico Race and Ethnicity Data

描述（由申请人提供）：新墨西哥州卫生部和卫生政策委员会将提高新墨西哥州出院和急诊数据库中种族和民族数据的质量。此外，该项目还将收集部落身份识别数据，并制定部落身份识别方法和程序，作为其他州的模式。新墨西哥州行政法规将进行修订，要求医院按照1997年管理和预算办公室的标准报告种族和族裔数据，并向该州报告部落标识符数据。在国家咨询委员会的指导下， 10家试点医院将实地测试为该项目编制的培训材料。这些将包括医院程序、数据收集、病人教育和培训培训员材料。一旦试点医院开始使用这些新方法成功报告住院患者的种族和族裔数据，报告将扩大到所有其他非联邦医院。一旦住院种族，民族和部落标识符报告正在顺利进行，种族，民族和部落标识符的报告将从急诊科开始。将制定和修改医院的具体合规计划，以确保改善每家医院的数据。在新墨西哥州对这种新方法的评价将集中在几种补充方法上。在试点医院进行的图表审查将有助于确定种族、民族和部落标识符报告的新方法是否得到充分实施。如果没有，将在必要时修改程序。将电子出院记录与出生证明记录和印度卫生服务记录定期联系起来，将跟踪种族、族裔和部落标识符数据可靠性的改善情况。出院后给住院患者打电话，通过自我报告将他们的种族、民族和部落标识符与医院记录进行比较，将跟踪这些数据有效性的改善。将这些新方法推广到其他州对项目的成功至关重要。新墨西哥州预计将建立一个收集、报告和适当传播医院数据中所含部落标识符数据的模式，这些数据将非正式地通过出版的手稿传播给其他州。该项目开发的经过实地测试的数据收集材料、患者教育材料和培训模块也将分发给其他州。 公共卫生相关性：新墨西哥州的提高种族和族裔数据质量项目与公共卫生有关，因为它将提高新墨西哥州以及通过传播方法和材料在其他州的种族、族裔和部落关系医院数据的可靠性和有效性。这些数据对公共卫生至关重要，是减少种族和民族健康和医疗保健差异的基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): New Mexico Department of Health and the Health Policy Commission will improve the quality of race and ethnicity data in hospital discharge and emergency department databases in New Mexico. In addition, the project will collect tribal identifier data and establish methods and procedures for tribal identifiers as a model for other states. The New Mexico administrative code will be revised to require that hospitals report race and ethnicity data, consistent with the 1997 Office of Management and Budget standard, and tribal identifier data to the State. Under the guidance of a state advisory committee, 5 10 pilot hospitals will field test the training materials that will be developed for the project. These will include hospital procedure, data collection, patient education and train-the-trainer materials. Once the pilot hospitals have begun reporting race and ethnicity data from hospitalizations successfully using these new methods, reporting will be expanded to all other non-federal hospitals. And once hospitalization race, ethnicity and tribal identifier reporting is well underway, reporting of race, ethnicity and tribal identifier will commence from emergency departments. Hospital specific compliance plans will be developed and modified to assure improvements in each hospital's data. Evaluation of this new approach in New Mexico will be focused on several complementary methods. Chart reviews at pilot hospitals will help determine if the new approach to race, ethnicity, and tribal identifier reporting has been adequately implemented. If not, procedures will be revised as necessary. Linkage of electronic hospital discharge records with birth certificate records and Indian Health Service records periodically will track improvements in the reliability of race, ethnicity and tribal identifier data. And phone calls to hospitalized persons following discharge to compare their race, ethnicity and tribal identifier by self-report with hospital records will track improvements in the validity of these data. Dissemination of these new methods to other states will be critical to the success of the project. New Mexico expects to have established a model for the collection, reporting and appropriate dissemination of tribal identifier data included in hospital data which will be disseminated to other states informally and through a published manuscript. The field tested data collection materials, patient education materials and training modules developed by the project will also be disseminated to other states. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: New Mexico's Improving the Quality of Race and Ethnicity Data Project is relevant to public health because it will improve the reliability and validity of race, ethnicity and tribal affiliation hospital data in New Mexico and, through dissemination of methods and materials, in other states. These data are essential to public health as the foundation for reducing racial and ethnic health and healthcare disparities.