Enrollment of racially/ethnically diverse participants in traumatic brain injury trials: Effect of availability of exception from informed consent

Clinical Trials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-194

  Yamal, Jose Miguel ^a   Robertson, Claudia S ^b   Rubin, M Laura ^a   Benoit, Julia S ^a   Hannay, H Julia ^c   Tilley, Barbara C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; ANTIANEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNICITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ASIAN AMERICAN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPLICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANEMIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEMATINICS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899017499     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774514522560     Document Type: Article

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