Special populations recruitment for the Women's Health Initiative: Successes and limitations

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-352

  Fouad, Mona N ^a   Corbie Smith, Giselle ^b   Curb, David ^c   Howard, Barbara V ^d   Mouton, Charles ^e   Simon, Michael ^f   Talavera, Greg ^g   Thompson, Joanice ^a   Wang, Ching Yun ^h   White, Cornelia ⁱ   Young, Rosalie ^j  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Honolulu Clinical Center   (United States)

^d MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^f HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

ⁱ CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^j WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Community outreach; Mass mailing; Minority recruitment; Randomization yield; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIET; DIET THERAPY; DISABILITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH STATISTICS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTAL MAIL; POSTMENOPAUSE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET THERAPY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 3543036993     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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