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Underreporting of Race in the National Hospital Discharge Survey Advance Data 265. Race data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) has become increasingly incomplete in recent years. This report examines factors related to the underreporting of race and explores the effects of the underreporting on NHDS estimates of hospital use by race. Two main factors were found to be related to the increasing underreporting of race in the NHDS. First, a growing number of hospitals that participated in the NHDS in 1990-92 did not report race for any patients. Second, race was not reported for the majority of patients that were identified as Hispanic. Data Highlights:
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