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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2009. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12696.
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Appendix A
Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACRONYMS

ACS American Community Survey

ADA Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

AHA American Hospital Association

AHIP America’s Health Insurance Plans

AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS

AIAN American Indian or Alaska Native

AMA American Medical Association

AMIA American Medical Informatics Association

ARRA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

ASPE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS

BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

CAHPS Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems

CCHIT Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CHC Community Health Center

CHD Coronary Heart Disease

CHIP Children’s Health Insurance Program

CHIS California Health Interview Survey

CLAS Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CPS Current Population Survey

DMHC California Department of Managed Health Care

ED Emergency Department

EHR Electronic Health Record

ELPS English Language Proficiency Survey

ESRD End Stage Renal Disease

HCUP Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project

HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2009. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12696.
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HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIT Health Information Technology

HITSP Health Information Technology Standards Panel

HL7 Health Level 7

HRET Health Research & Educational Trust

IOM Institute of Medicine

ISO International Organization for Standardization

LEP Limited English Proficiency

MEDS Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System

MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

MIPPA Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

NAMCS National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

NCHS National Center for Health Statistics

NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance

NCVHS National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

NHAMCS National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

NHDR National Healthcare Disparities Report

NHeLP National Health Law Program

NHIS National Health Interview Survey

NHOPI Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

NHPC National Health Plan Collaborative

NHQR National Healthcare Quality Report

NIS National Immunization Survey

NLAAS National Latino and Asian American Study

NQF National Quality Forum

NRC National Research Council

NSDUH National Survey on Drug Use and Health

NVSS National Vital Statistics System

OCR Office for Civil Rights, HHS

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OMH Office of Minority Health, HHS

ONC Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS

PHIN Public Health Information Network

PHR Personal Health Record

PQRI Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative

PUMS Public Use Microdata Samples

QI Quality Improvement

RAETT U.S. Census Bureau’s 1996 Racial and Ethnic Targeted Test

RWJF Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results

SES Socioeconomic Status

SSA Social Security Administration

SSN Social Security Number

TDD Telecommunication Device for Deaf Persons

TTY TeleTYwriter or Text Telephone

UMMC University of Mississippi Medical Center

URAC Formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission

WCRS Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2009. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12696.
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ABBREVIATIONS

CI Confidence Interval

MLBW Moderately Low Birthweight

OR Odds Ratio

RR Relative Risk

VLBW Very Low Birthweight

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine. 2009. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12696.
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The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data.

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.

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