Clinical Trials: The Art of Enrollment

Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 262-269

  Baquet, Claudia R ^a   Henderson, Kimberly ^a   Commiskey, Patricia ^a   Morrow, Jamila N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

accrual; barriers; Clinical trials enrollment; minority; underserved

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 55349127430     PISSN: 07492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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