Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 326, Issue 7, 2021, Pages 621-627

  Flanagin, Annette ^a   Frey, Tracy ^a   Christiansen, Stacy L ^a  

^a JAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHEROKEE (PEOPLE); DISABILITY; ETHNICITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KAMBA (PEOPLE); KIKUYU (PEOPLE); MEDICAL LITERATURE; REVIEW; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIAL STATUS; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 85113178559     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.13304     Document Type: Review

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