A call to action: Patients' access to clinical trials

Health and Social Work

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 196-200

  Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035434102     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/26.3.196     Document Type: Review

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