Why is data collection of patients race, ethnicity, and primary language important?
Data currently available on patients’ race, ethnicity, and primary language are quite limited or are inaccurate. However, these data are critical to documenting the nature of disparities in health care and developing strategies to eliminate disparities and improve quality of care. • What is this Toolkit? This Toolkit is an easy-to-use resource for health care organizations to implement a systematic method of collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data. • What is the Toolkit designed to do? The Toolkit is designed to answer questions about race, ethnicity, and primary language data collection. It provides the answers to the “how to” questions and addresses concerns (legal, privacy, how to ask patients, how to address concerns) about data collection. • How do I use the Toolkit? The Toolkit is setup to be user-friendly. The table of contents provides an outline of the type of information available on the toolkit. When you click on a topic area in the table of contents, you will
