Racial categories in medicine: a failure of evidence-based practice?

PLoS Med. 2007 Sep;4(9):e287. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040287.

Abstract

Race and ethnicity are imprecise markers of the genotypic and sociocultural determinants of health, argue the authors.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care / methods
  • Evidence-Based Medicine / methods*
  • Humans
  • Medicine / methods
  • Racial Groups / ethnology*
  • Racial Groups / genetics
  • Treatment Failure*