Medical journals are urged to reject research that isn’t representative or inclusive
Researchers need to do more to ensure that their study participants are diverse and representative of the patient population, while medical journals should reject papers that do not meet those criteria, health and charity leaders have said. John James, chief executive officer of the Sickle Cell Society, urged medical journal editors to be tougher when it comes to not publishing research with diverse or representative participants. Speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Tackling Health Inequalities conference in London on 28 January during a session on diversifying research, James said, “If I was leading an organisation [like that], and the research …
