TY - JOUR T1 - Investigating the association between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer using routinely collected health data: challenges and potential solutions JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 88 LP - 88 DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.096735j VL - 63 IS - Suppl 2 AU - A. Downing AU - D. Forman AU - J. D. Thomas AU - R. M. West AU - G. Lawrence AU - M. S. Gilthorpe Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/63/Suppl_2/88.abstract N2 - Previous studies have reported differences in survival from breast cancer by ethnic group. Some of these studies have taken information on ethnicity from routinely collected data, such as Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). There are several problems associated with using ethnicity from HES data, such as multiple ethnicities being recorded for a single patient with multiple hospital visits, and missing data. This study will investigate methods to overcome these problems in order to assess the relationship between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer. … ER -