Article
Non-reporting and inconsistent reporting of race and ethnicity in articles that claim associations among genotype, outcome, and race or ethnicity.
Journal of medical ethics - 1 Dec 2006
Shanawani H, Dame L, Schwartz D A, Cook-Deegan R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The use of race as a category in medical research is the focus of an intense debate, complicated by the inconsistency of presumed independent variables, race and ethnicity, on which analysis depends. Interpretation is made difficult by inconsistent methods for determining the race or ethnicity of a participant. The failure to specify how race or ethnicity was determined is common in the published...
Topics
- Bias
- Data Collection
- Ethics, Research
- Ethnicity
- Genotype
- Human Experimentation
- Humans
- Periodicals as Topic
- Publishing
- Racial Groups
- Research Design