Re-examining the utility and validity of benign ethnic neutropenia: A narrative literature review
Ashley Andreou, Jyotsna Jayaram, Ashley Walker, Cenk Tek, J. Corey Williams
Schizophrenia Research, 2022
Given the limitations in this U.S.-based scientific literature, BEN is a diagnosis of limited construct validity that reinforces false notions of biological race, warrants renaming to remove “ethnic” language (to include “familial” or “hereditary”), and suggests a need for global expansion of the existing absolute neutrophil count reference ranges in the clozapine monitoring guidelines.
