Community events as viable sites for recruiting minority volunteers who agree to be contacted for future research

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 369-371

  Bishop, Wendy Pechero ^a   Tiro, Jasmin A ^a   Lee, Simon J Craddock ^a   Bruce, Corinne M ^a,b   Skinner, Celette Sugg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Community events; Minority recruitment; Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953045375     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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