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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2023 Feb 2;44(4):661–669. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001340

Table 1.

Publication characteristics of temporal bone histopathology studies reporting race.

Study Evidence
qualitya 		Journal
type		 Funding Number
of participants		 Number of male
participants		 Number of
female
participants		 Number of
participants
reported to be:
Black or African
American		 White Other
Nager & Nager (1953) 4 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 5 3 (60%) 2 (40%) 1 (20%) 4 (80%) 0
Paparella & Lim (1967) 4 Otolaryngology Nonprofit, Government 5 2 (40%) 3 (60%) 1 (20%) 4 (80%) 0
Johnsson (1971) 4 Otolaryngology Nonprofit, Government 9 7 (78%) 2 (22%) 0 9 (100%) 0
LeFerriere et al (1974)b 4 Otolaryngology Nonprofit, Government 216 NA NA 16 (7.4%) 200 (92.6%) 0
Sando et al (1975) 4 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 7 3 (43%) 4 (57%) 0 7 (100%) 0
Hawkins et al (1978) 4 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 7 7 (100%) 0 0 7 (100%) 0
Johnsson et al (1981) 4 Otolaryngology Government 5 2 (40%) 3 (60%) 1 (20%) 4 (80%) 0
Simms & Neely (1989)c 4 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 103 54 (52%) 49 (48%) 0 45 (43.7%) 58 (56.3%)
Nelson & Hinojosa (2006) 3 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 31 21 (68%) 10 (32%) 9(29%) 22 (71%) 0
Yew et al (2011) 4 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 102 68 (67%) 34 (33%) 49 (48.0%) 53 (52.0%) 0
Gluth & Nelson (2017) 3 Otolaryngology No funding/Not listed 38 21 (55%) 17 (45%) 9 (23.7%) 29 (76.3%) 0
Pauno et al (2017)d 3 Otolaryngology Nonprofit, Government 24 5 (42%) 7 (58%) 0 12 (100%) 0
a

Per the modified criteria from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine for ratings of individual studies.

b

LeFerriere et al (1974) did not report sex.

c

Simms & Neely (1989) divided the study cohort as “White” and “NonWhite.”

d

Pauno et al (2017) only reported control group data demographics.