Personal Demographics
Below are the pre-defined stratifications for Gender, Race, Language, and Race-Language (English, Non-English) and their approximate patient counts in the database as of 05/04/2012. The stratifications for Race and Language are intended to capture the major groups present in the database. Customized strata can be created utilizing the i2b2 Query Tool. For more information read the HOME Cell Help section about the Strata Tab.
- Gender
- Male (585,504)
- Female (613,086)
- Race
- White (392,001)
- Black (276,991)
- Hispanic (171,798)
- Asian (56,937)
- Other* (224,026)
- Not Recorded* (68,545)
- Language
- English (464,327)
- Non-English (316,216)
- Spanish (71,368)
- French Creole (Haitian Creole) (21,090)
- Cape Verdean Creole (8,958)
- European (Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lituanian, Polish, Ukranian, Russian) (18,661)
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (18,235)
- Portuguese (10,992)
- Afro/Asiatic (Arabic, Hebrew, Ethiopian-Tigrinya, Somalian, Farsi) (7,878)
- Other* (168,524)
- Not Recorded* (376,999)
Language stratifications capture the major languages or language groups as represented in the database and as identified by the city of Boston in the New Bostonians 2009report.
- Race-Language (English vs. Non-English**)
- White English (232,680)
- White Non-English (59,381)
- Black English (155,537)
- Black Non-English (67,358)
- Hispanic English (47,368)
- Hispanic Non-English (89,534)
- Asian English (15,318)
- Asian Non-English (28,556)
- Other*** English (24,490)
- Other*** Non-English (65,367)
Race and Language alone do not always adequately define unique populations of patients who may have differing factors that could affect their health status. Language differences (English vs. Non-English) among racial groups provides greater granularity to identify drivers of healthcare disparities.
* Recorded as Other or Not Recorded. More categories exist in the MHDR Demographics Ontology.
** Non-English does not include Not Recorded.
*** Other in Race-Language includes all other recorded Race except Not Recorded.
