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MIMIC-IV admissions table documentation typo

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Hi, just want to quickly share a very minor typo: the ethnicity field in the documentation for MIMIC-IV's admissions table should be race as is in the data and correctly noted elsewhere. Thank you!

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Open the linked MIMIC-IV admissions documentation and navigate to the section covering insurance, language, marital_status, and ethnicity. Compare the ethnicity entry with the data and the other documentation references; it is done when the incorrect field name is corrected to race.

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Domain
databases, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Quiet
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Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
72/100

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