Data, Discrimination, and Harm: LGBTQI People Left Behind.

Guidelines and recommendations to properly elicit and document sexual orientation and gender identity in the clinical setting are rapidly emerging; however, in the epidemiologic research setting, information about collection, analysis, presentation, and dissemination of LGBTQI data is nascent. Federal agencies have worked to optimize epidemiologic research data collection from LGBTQI people. Despite these efforts, research data collection guidelines are inconsistent, and the data remain inadequate.