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As a medical journal, we cannot fix all these problems. But we can take concrete steps. Our research papers often, but not always, comment on gender, race, and ethnicity within the study sample. But as of January 1, 2022, we will require, as a new step, that authors of research studies prepare a supplementary table that provides background information on the disease, problem, or condition and the representativeness of the study group, to be posted with the article at the time of publication online. An example of the kind of information authors should provide is shown in Table 1.
