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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2020 Jan;58(1):e1–e8. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001216

Table 3.

Cases misclassified by EDB or RTI race/ethnicity compared to OASIS.

Study population (N = 4,321,370)
Misclassified OASIS race self-reported as:
EDB race misclassified as: 318,177(7.5%) White Black AAPI Hispanic AIAN
 White 190,434 - 8,376
4.4%
8,532
4.5%
167,495
88.0%
6,031
3.2%
 Black 28,042 17,524
62.5%
- 1,155
4.1%
8,167
29.1%
1,196
4.3%
 AAPI 10,462 7,786
74.4%
728
7.0%
- 1,124
10.7%
824
7.9%
 Hispanic 9,079 6,695
73.7%
1,481
16.3%
753
8.3%
- 150
1.7%
 AIAN 8,061 6,614
82.1%
491
6.1%
439
5.5%
517
6.4%
-
 Other / unknown 72,099 31,364
43.5%
4,554
6.3%
22,553
6.3%
12,749
17.7%
879
1.2%
RTI race misclassified as: 179,488 (4.2%) White Black AAPI Hispanic AIAN
 White 41,878 - 7,682
18.3%
6,589
15.7%
21,941
52.4%
5,666
13.5%
 Black 21,699 17,265
80.0%
- 960
4.4%
2,298
10.6%
1,176
5.4%
 AAPI 15,594 11,948
76.6%
1,160
7.4%
- 1,373
8.8%
1,113
7.1%
 Hispanic 48,594 37,670
77.5%
4,175
8.6%
6,214
12.8%
- 533
1.1%
 AIAN 7,852 6,570
83.7%
474
6.0%
362
4.6%
446
5.7%
-
 Other / unknown 43,873 29,203
66.6%
4,233
9.7%
8,448
19.3%
8,448
19.3%
612
1.4%

Abbreviations: AAPI = Asian American / Pacific Islanders / Native Hawaiians; AIAN = American Indians / Alaskan Natives