Beyond Aggregated Race and Ethnicity Codes: An Examination of Additional Methods to Identify Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Veteran Subgroups in Administrative Databases

Our study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, to merge administrative datasets to characterize VA-enrolled veterans of Asian or NHPI race with a corresponding Asian or NHPI ethnicity. Despite incomplete ethnicity data, the merging of CDW race and DaVINCI ethnicity variables (over the use of one or the other) may inform research and quality improvement studies, e.g., by enabling recruitment of vulnerable veterans from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This effort to disaggregate data is key to expanding our knowledge of heterogeneity in the health of veterans in Asian and NHPI communities.

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Military Medicine
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2025-04-29
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https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaf192
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Migration, Health and Trauma
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Beyond Aggregated Race and Ethnicity Codes: An Examination of Additional Methods to Identify Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Veteran Subgroups in Administrative Databases

Linda Am, Camilla B. Pimentel, Emma Quach, Pengsheng Ni et al.
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Beyond Aggregated Race and Ethnicity Codes: An Examination of Additional Methods to Identify Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Veteran Subgroups in Administrative Databases

Linda Am, Camilla B. Pimentel, Emma Quach, Pengsheng Ni, Stephanie L. Shimada, Victoria Ngo, Shibei Zhao, Da Jung Chang
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Abstract

Our study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, to merge administrative datasets to characterize VA-enrolled veterans of Asian or NHPI race with a corresponding Asian or NHPI ethnicity. Despite incomplete ethnicity data, the merging of CDW race and DaVINCI ethnicity variables (over the use of one or the other) may inform research and quality improvement studies, e.g., by enabling recruitment of vulnerable veterans from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This effort to disaggregate data is key to expanding our knowledge of heterogeneity in the health of veterans in Asian and NHPI communities.

Military MedicineVol. 190(11-12)
Boston University (US), University of Massachusetts Lowell (US), University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US), University of Massachusetts Boston (US), VA New England Healthcare System (US), Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (US)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Academic Affiliations, Department of Veterans Affairs
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Beyond Aggregated Race and Ethnicity Codes: An Examination of Additional Methods to Identify Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Veteran Subgroups in Administrative Databases — Linda Am, Camilla B. Pimentel, et al. · Military Medicine (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS