Validation of ethnicity in cancer data: which Hispanics are we misclassifying? (original) (raw)

Journal of registry management, 2009

Abstract

The study of cancer in Hispanics in the United States has been hindered by misclassification of Hispanics as non-Hispanic and by the convenient practice of aggregating the diverse Hispanic subgroups into a general Hispanic category. The Hispanic Origin Identification Algorithm (HOIA) was developed to improve the identification of both the general Hispanic ethnicity and the specific Hispanic subgroup in cancer incidence data. Using an independent study of prostate cancer cases from South Florida as the "gold standard" and the Florida incident cancer registry data, we validated this algorithm and studied the characteristics of those Hispanics whose ethnicity was commonly missed in the cancer registry records. Overall,…

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