Outreach to diversify clinical trial participation: A randomized recruitment study

Clinical Trials

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 205-211

  Brown, Susan D ^a   Partee, Paula N ^a   Feng, Juanran ^a   Quesenberry, Charles P ^a   Hedderson, Monique M ^a   Ehrlich, Samantha F ^a   Kiernan, Michaela ^b   Ferrara, Assiamira ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; diabetes; direct mail; disease risk; health disparities; participation; racial and ethnic minorities; Randomized clinical trials; recruitment; targeting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCREENING; ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ETHNOLOGY; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIFE STYLE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84929164415     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774514568125     Document Type: Article

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