Comparison of Reporting Race and Ethnicity in Medical Journals Before and After Implementation of Reporting Guidance, 2019-2022

Annette Flanagin; Miriam Y Cintron; Stacy L Christiansen; Tracy Frey; Timothy Gray; Iris Y Lo; Roger J Lewis

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.1706

Comparison of Reporting Race and Ethnicity in Medical Journals Before and After Implementation of Reporting Guidance, 2019-2022

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Mar 1;6(3):e231706. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.1706.

Authors

Annette Flanagin¹, Miriam Y Cintron¹, Stacy L Christiansen¹, Tracy Frey¹, Timothy Gray¹, Iris Y Lo¹, Roger J Lewis^{1

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Affiliations

¹ JAMA Network, Chicago, Illinois.
² Berry Consultants, Austin, Texas.
³ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.
⁴ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares race and ethnicity reporting in 3 medical journals before and after implementation of updated guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity in August 2021.

MeSH terms

Ethnicity*
Humans
Periodicals as Topic*