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2500 word marked assignment (c 10 pages double spaced)

Title: A critical assessment of coding terminologies and reference sets used to identify ethnic background

1) Using relevant browsers search for and identify all available codesets used to identify a person’s ethnic background from information held in the electronic health record, including

• SNOMED CT reference sets

• ONS Census codes (READ)

• NHS data dictionary codesets including ONS and PDS codes

2) Consider, compare and summarise their differences

3) Prepare a 2500 word report of your approach, methods, and findings including discussion of implications for studies based on primary care electronic health records that require reporting or analysis of ethnic background citing relevant publications retrieved from the literature

To be handed in by 15th January 2020

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