Recruitment and retention strategies for minority or poor clinical research participants: Lessons from the healthy aging in neighborhoods of diversity across the life span study

Gerontologist

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Ejiogu, Ngozi ^a   Norbeck, Jennifer H ^a   Mason, Marc A ^a,b   Cromwell, Bridget C ^a,b   Zonderman, Alan B ^a   Evans, Michele K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based research platform; Cultural proficiency; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SELECTION; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLING STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79956120691     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnr027     Document Type: Article

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