PECARN releases guide on collecting sociodemographic data

An article published in Pediatrics offers guidance on collecting race, ethnicity, and language; sexual orientation and gender identity; and socioeconomic and geographic data in pediatric emergency care research. The guidance was developed through the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network’s (PECARN) Health Disparities Working Group. The group’s aims were to summarize existing barriers to sociodemographic data collection, offer strategies for the consistent and reproducible collection of these data, and to provide rationale for suggested approaches. Read the article.