How good are we at reporting the socioeconomic position, ethnicity, race, religion and main language of research participants? A review of the quality of reporting in palliative care intervention studies

How good are we at reporting the socioeconomic position, ethnicity, race, religion and main language of research participants? A review of the quality of reporting in palliative care intervention studies
Palliative Medicine, by Keerthika Selvakumaran, Katherine E Sleeman, Joanna M Davies; 2/24
[UK] In 2018, a review of 18 clinical trials on the integration of palliative care into oncology, found that one-third did not report the race or ethnicity of participants, and a further one-third provided only broad categorisations such as ‘white’ versus ‘other’. The aim of this pragmatic review is to describe the quality of reporting in palliative and end-of-life care intervention studies, for social characteristics including socioeconomic position, ethnicity or race, religion and the main language of participants.