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Ma IW, Khan NA, Kang A, et al. Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals. J Clin Epidemiol. 2007;60(6):572-8doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009.
Ma, I. W., Khan, N. A., Kang, A., Zalunardo, N., & Palepu, A. (2007). Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 60(6), 572-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009
Ma, Irene W Y, et al. "Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals." Journal of clinical epidemiology vol. 60,6 (2007): 572-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009
Ma IW, Khan NA, Kang A, Zalunardo N, Palepu A. Systematic review identified suboptimal reporting and use of race/ethnicity in general medical journals. J Clin Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;60(6):572-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009. Epub 2007 Mar 26. PMID: 17493512.
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J Clin Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;60(6):572-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009. Epub 2007 Mar 26.

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

Journal of clinical epidemiology

Irene W Y Ma, Nadia A Khan, Anna Kang, Nadia Zalunardo, Anita Palepu

Affiliations

  1. Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. [email protected]

PMID: 17493512 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.11.009

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: 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.

STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: 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.

RESULTS: 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.

CONCLUSION: 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.

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