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Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records
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In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding, the first comprehensive compilation of what is known about the health of each of these groups at different stages of life. This report also outlined an agenda for the research and data collection necessary to form a fuller understanding of this subject. One of the recommendations in this report was that, provided that privacy concerns could be adequately addressed, information on patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity2 should be collected in electronic health records, just as information on race and ethnicity is routinely collected. Such data are essential because demographics provide the foundation for understanding any population’s status and needs.
Joe Alper, Monica N. Feit, and Jon Q. Sanders - Personal Name
978-0-309-26804-2
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Healthcare Management
English
2012
1-89
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