An ethno-medical perspective on research participation: A qualitative pilot study

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Calderón, José L ^a   Baker, Richard S ^a   Fabrega, Horacio ^b   Conde, José G ^c   Hays, Ron D ^d,e   Fleming, Erik ^a   Norris, Keith ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PILOT STUDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 33646086239     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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