Atu Agawu

May 1, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Atu Agawu |Barbara H. Chaiyachati |Andrea F. Duncan |Joshua Radack

Patterns of Change in Race Category in the Electronic Medical Record of a Pediatric Population The collection, use, and meaning of race in biomedical research is complicated by the tension between the requisite interrogation of health disparities associated with race and the risk of continued insinuation of race as a biologic entity when interspersed with health outcomes.1-3 As a social construct, the literature supports that, assessed at the individual level, race as a category has a...