Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research.

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Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Race, ethnicity, and the duration of untreated psychosis: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014
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2. Complications for racial and ethnic minority groups after total hip and knee replacement: a review of the literature.The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · 2010
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3. A Review of Qualitative Research of Perception and Experiences of Dementia Among Adults From Black, African, and Caribbean Background: What and Whom Are We Researching?The Gerontologist · 2021
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4. Representation of racial and ethnic minority groups in cohort studies evaluating risk factors for dementia: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2021
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5. The role of ethnicity in pathways to emergency psychiatric services for clients with psychosis.BMC psychiatry · 2017
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6. Social mixing in Fiji: Who-eats-with-whom contact patterns and the implications of age and ethnic heterogeneity for disease dynamics in the Pacific Islands.PloS one · 2017
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7. Comparing schizophrenia symptoms in the Iban of Sarawak with other populations to elucidate clinical heterogeneity.Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists · 2015
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8. DSM-IV "criterion A" schizophrenia symptoms across ethnically different populations: evidence for differing psychotic symptom content or structural organization?Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2014
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9. Linguistic validation of the Sexual Inhibition and Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES) translated into five South Asian languages: Oxford Sexual Dysfunction Study (OSDS).BMC research notes · 2013
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10. Improving capacity in ethnicity and health research: report of a tailored programme for NHS Public Health practitioners.Primary health care research & development · 2013
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11. Principles for research on ethnicity and health: the Leeds Consensus Statement.European journal of public health · 2013
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12. Prevalence, symptom patterns and comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care in Qatar.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012
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13. Ethnic inequalities in mortality: the case of Arab-Americans.PloS one · 2011
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14. Examination performance of graduate entry medical students compared with mainstream students.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2009
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15. Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009
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16. Association of alpha1a-adrenergic receptor polymorphism and blood pressure phenotypes in the Brazilian population.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2008
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17. What about stigma, evidence base, and consistency?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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18. Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease prevention in the United Kingdom: a practical approach to management.Journal of human hypertension · 2007
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19. Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic cohort: LUMINA XXXV. Predictive factors of high disease activity over time.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2006
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20. Negro, Black, Black African, African Caribbean, African American or what? Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st century.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2005
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Corrections and comments

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  Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research. Guidelines will encourage the thinking that underpins racism in medicine.1996
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  Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research. "White" populations also need to be accurately described.1996
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  Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research. Self defined ethnicity is unhelpful.1996
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  Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research. Links need to be maintained with census definitions.1996
• Commented on by
  Rates of anxiety and depression in African-Caribbeans may not reflect reality.1999
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  What about stigma, evidence base, and consistency?2007
• Comment on
  Ethnicity, race, and culture: guidelines for research, audit, and publication.1996
• Comment on
  Practicality of recording patient ethnicity in general practice: descriptive intervention study and attitude survey.1996

Authors and funding

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