Daniel Pan, Shirley Sze, Jatinder S Minhas, Mansoor N Bangash, Nilesh Pareek, Pip Divall, Caroline Ml Williams, Marco R Oggioni, Iain B Squire, Laura B Nellums, Wasim Hanif, Kamlesh Khunti, Manish Pareek
BACKGROUND: The relationship between ethnicity and COVID-19 is uncertain. We performed a systematic review to assess whether ethnicity has been reported in patients with COVID-19 and its relation to clinical outcomes. METHODS: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library and PROSPERO for English-language citations on ethnicity and COVID-19 (1st December 2019-15th May 2020). We also reviewed: COVID-19 articles in NEJM, Lancet, BMJ, JAMA , clinical trial protocols, grey literature, surveillance data and preprint articles on COVID-19 in MedRxiv to evaluate if the association between ethnicity and clinical outcomes were reported and what they showed...
June 2020: EClinicalMedicine