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Comment & Response
August 17, 2021

Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Scientific Journals

Author Affiliations
  • 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
JAMA. 2021;326(7):673. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.9268

To the Editor We believe that the recent Editorial1 about how race and ethnicity are reported in the literature missed an opportunity to make several important points, some of which we have recently noted.2 First, the conflation of race and ethnicity should be avoided. While the authors provided separate definitions of these terms, their repeated use of the hyphenated phrase “race/ethnicity” encourages authors and researchers to merge the 2 concepts.

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