Strategies addressing barriers to clinical trial enrollment of underrepresented populations: A systematic review

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-182

  Heller, Caren ^a   Balls Berry, Joyce E ^b   Nery, Jill Dumbauld ^c   Erwin, Patricia J ^b   Littleton, Dawn ^b   Kim, Mimi ^d,e   Kuo, Winston P ^f,g  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities   (United States)

^f NC TraCS Institute The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*  (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Minority; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CINAHL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDLINE; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84910083388     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.08.004     Document Type: Review

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