Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals Export

@article{citeulike:2101023, abstract = {Methods of reporting of race/ethnicity in biomedical journals are largely unknown. We aimed to systematically examine the reporting practice of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) information in biomedical journals. All primary research articles that reported more than one racial/ethnic group, published between 1999 and 2003 in Annals of Internal Medicine , JAMA , The Lancet , and The New England Journal of Medicine ( n  = 1,152) were reviewed for their use of race/ethnicity and SES variables. Interobserver reliability was assessed by independent abstraction of 10\% of study sample. There were a total of 116 different terms used to describe various racial/ethnic groups. Assignment of race/ethnicity by self-report was stated in only 13\% of papers; 52\% of papers identifying race/ethnicity of study participants did not report any SES information. Overall, 16\% of articles explicitly stated reasons for collecting information on race/ethnicity. Our results suggest that race/ethnicity information was suboptimally reported in general medical journals. Terminology used was highly variable. Method of establishing racial/ethnic categories, rationale for collecting race/ethnicity data, and SES information were underreported.}, address = {Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. ima@stanfordalumni.org}, author = {Ma, I. and Khan, N. and Kang, A. and Zalunardo, N. and Palepu, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2101023}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895435606004355}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17493512}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17493512}, doi = {10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009}, issn = {08954356}, journal = {Journal of Clinical Epidemiology}, keywords = {ethnicity, medicine, race, racism}, month = {June}, number = {6}, pages = {572--578}, posted-at = {2009-07-20 15:36:07}, priority = {3}, title = {Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009}, volume = {60}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2101023 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2101023 N2 - Methods of reporting of race/ethnicity in biomedical journals are largely unknown. We aimed to systematically examine the reporting practice of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) information in biomedical journals. All primary research articles that reported more than one racial/ethnic group, published between 1999 and 2003 in Annals of Internal Medicine , JAMA , The Lancet , and The New England Journal of Medicine ( n  = 1,152) were reviewed for their use of race/ethnicity and SES variables. Interobserver reliability was assessed by independent abstraction of 10% of study sample. There were a total of 116 different terms used to describe various racial/ethnic groups. Assignment of race/ethnicity by self-report was stated in only 13% of papers; 52% of papers identifying race/ethnicity of study participants did not report any SES information. Overall, 16% of articles explicitly stated reasons for collecting information on race/ethnicity. Our results suggest that race/ethnicity information was suboptimally reported in general medical journals. Terminology used was highly variable. Method of establishing racial/ethnic categories, rationale for collecting race/ethnicity data, and SES information were underreported. IS - 6 JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology SN - 08954356 AD - Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. ima@stanfordalumni.org EP - 578 TI - Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals VL - 60 SP - 572 KW - ethnicity KW - medicine KW - race KW - racism AU - Ma, I AU - Khan, N AU - Kang, A AU - Zalunardo, N AU - Palepu, A PY - 2007/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009 ER -