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Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, May 2010
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
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Title
Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, May 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-10-42
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Authors

Baiju R Shah, Maria Chiu, Shubarna Amin, Meera Ramani, Sharon Sadry, Jack V Tu

Abstract

Surname lists are useful for identifying cohorts of ethnic minority patients from secondary data sources. This study sought to develop and validate lists to identify people of South Asian and Chinese origin.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 86 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 20 23%
Student > Master 12 14%
Student > Postgraduate 10 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Other 18 20%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 41%
Social Sciences 11 13%
Computer Science 5 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Psychology 3 3%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 16 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2023.
All research outputs
#2,576,917
of 24,860,845 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#388
of 2,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,296
of 100,684 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#3
of 10 outputs
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