Effectiveness of strategies to recruit underrepresented populations into cancer clinical trials

Clinical Trials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-141

  Lai, Gabriel Y ^a   Gary, Tiffany L ^a,b   Tilburt, Jon ^c   Bolen, Shari ^c   Baffi, Charles ^d   Wilson, Renee F ^c,e   Howerton, Mollie W ^c   Gibbons, M Chris ^c,e   Tanpitukpongse, Teerath Peter ^e   Powe, Neil R ^a,b,c   Bass, Eric B ^a,b,c,e   Ford, Jean G ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PREVENTION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 33744807431     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1740774506cn143oa     Document Type: Review

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