Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA .
Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2024 Oct 1;15(10):e1. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000753.
Empirical information on the evolution of reporting race and ethnicity information in gastroenterology research is lacking. To facilitate understanding of where improvements are needed to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in gastroenterology research, we aimed to evaluate reporting and representation by race and ethnicity in studies published in flagship US-based gastroenterology journals over 20 years.
We manually reviewed reporting and representation by race and ethnicity in all original research articles published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology and Gastroenterology in 2000, 2010, and 2020.
Of 1,168 publications, 24% reported information on race/ethnicity, significantly more commonly reported in US-based study samples vs non-US-based samples. While reporting significantly increased over time, reporting rates were still low as of 2020 (37% overall; 54% with US-based samples).
We recommend that gastroenterology journals create standard reporting requirements for sociodemographic information, including information on race, ethnicity, and/or cultural background.
缺乏关于胃肠病学研究中报告种族和民族信息演变的经验信息。为了更好地了解在胃肠病学研究中需要改进哪些方面以增加多样性、公平性和包容性，我们旨在评估 20 年来在美国主要胃肠病学杂志上发表的研究中种族和民族的报告和代表性。
我们对《美国胃肠病学杂志》和《胃肠病学》2000 年、2010 年和 2020 年发表的所有原始研究文章中的种族和民族报告及代表性进行了手动审查。
在 1168 篇出版物中，24%报告了种族/民族信息，与非美国的样本相比，基于美国的研究样本中报告的信息更为常见。虽然报告的数量随着时间的推移显著增加，但截至 2020 年，报告率仍然很低（总体 37%；基于美国的样本为 54%）。
我们建议胃肠病学杂志为社会人口学信息（包括种族、民族和/或文化背景信息）制定标准报告要求。
