Gap-reach: A checklist to assess comprehensive reporting of race, ethnicity, and culture in psychiatric publications

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 860-871

  Lewis Fernández, Roberto ^a,b   Raggio, Greer A ^c   Gorritz, Magdaliz ^b   Duan, Naihua ^a,b,d   Marcus, Sue ^a,b,d   Cabassa, Leopoldo J ^a,b,e   Humensky, Jennifer ^a,b   Becker, Anne E ^f   Alarcón, Renato D ^g   Oquendo, María A ^a,b   Hansen, Helena ^h   Like, Robert C ⁱ   Weiss, Mitchell ^j   Desai, Prakash N ^k   Jacobsen, Frederick M ^l   Foulks, Edward F ^m   Primm, Annelle ^n,o   Lu, Francis ^p   Kopelowicz, Alex ^q   Hinton, Ladson ^p   Hinton, Devon E ^r   more..

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^l GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^m TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^o JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

checklist; culture; ethnicity; psychiatric literature; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLICATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCREENING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHECKLIST; CONSENSUS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84885199941     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182a5c184     Document Type: Article

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