Recruiting minorities where they receive care: Institutional barriers to cancer clinical trials recruitment in a safety-net hospital

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 552-559

  Joseph, Galen ^a   Dohan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Cancer; Clinical trials; Enrollment; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MINORITY GROUPS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70350569233     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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