How to resolve the issue of different race of the same patient over different encounters

[clif-consortium]

For patients with multiple encounters and different recorded races:

Count the frequency of informative non-white race entries (excluding non-informative categories such as "Prefer not to say", "Unknown", "Refused to answer," etc.). Select the race entry with the highest frequency for each patient.

In case of a tie, choose the most recent informative entry.

[08wparker]

@clif-consortium another approach is to move race_name and race_category to hospitalization

[08wparker]

@sajor2000 says take the most recent one and map to race_name

[08wparker]

Each site should take a specific approach based on their typical practices to identify one race_name per patient