Are racial and ethnic minorities less willing to participate in health research?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 0201-0210

  Wendler, David ^a   Kington, Raynard ^b   Madans, Jennifer ^c   Van Wye, Gretchen ^d   Christ Schmidt, Heidi ^e   Pratt, Laura A ^c   Brawley, Otis W ^f   Gross, Cary P ^d   Emanuel, Ezekiel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Iowa   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADENOIDECTOMY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FRANCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELANOMA; META ANALYSIS; MINORITY GROUP; NEW ZEALAND; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PHARYNGITIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TONSILLECTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644842676     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030019     Document Type: Article

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