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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:973.

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In their editorial regarding the use of race and ethnicity variables, Rivara and Finberg¹ issued a welcome and needed call for greater rigor in the measurement of social, economic, and cultural variables in clinical, health services, and public health research. We strongly agree that race and ethnicity variables should never be "analyzed blindly," and should not be used in lieu of more meaningful measures of subjects' social, cultural, and economic characteristics, such as income, education, social support, family structure, and health beliefs.

However, would the exclusion of race and ethnicity from analyses "bring us closer to the underlying biological science on which . . . our care for patients is firmly rooted," as Rivara and Finberg¹ suggest? If we are striving to understand patient care only in terms of biological science, that may be true. However, the growing interest and expertise in understanding the social, economic, and cultural determinants of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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