Pathways to ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes in the United Kingdom: A systematic map.

"data availability no data was used for the research described in the article. appendix a supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi"

"Declaration of competing interest SVK was co-chair of the Scottish Government's Expert Reference Group on Ethnicity and COVID-19 and a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) subgroup on ethnicity. All other authors report no conflicts of interest."

"This work was supported by the ESRC (grant number ES/W000849/1). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. DP is supported by a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR302338). MP is supported by a NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award, by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands (ARC EM). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. SVK acknowledges funding from a NRS Senior Clinical Fellowship (SCAF/15/02), the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00022/2) and the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (SPHSU17). LBN is supported by an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award (SBF005/1047)."

"Systematic map methodology involves establishing the scope and research questions; searching for evidence; screening evidence; coding; describing and visualising the findings (using a table); and producing a report (). This map is reported in line with the RepOrting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) (). The conceptual model, research questions and protocol for this systematic map were developed through consultations with academic researchers, medical clinicians, an information professional (PD), and an expert in evidence synthesis methodologies (DK). The conceptual model informed eligibility decisions and the coding and synthesis of the included studies. The protocol was registered with Open Science Framework on the 28th February 2022: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/HZRB7. Methods: We searched six bibliographic and five grey literature databases from 1st December 2019 to 23rd February 2022 for research on pathways to ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes in the UK. Meta-data were extracted and coded, using a framework informed by a logic model. Open Science Framework Registration: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/HZRB7."