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Improving the accrual of racial and ethnic minority patients in clinical trials: Time to raise the stakes
Author(s) -
Ibraheem Abiola,
Polite Blase
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.31073
Subject(s) - accrual , medicine , ethnic group , clinical trial , family medicine , gerontology , accounting , earnings , business , sociology , anthropology
Despite decades of attention and study, racial and ethnic minority accrual to clinical trials remains poor. Serious efforts are needed to incentivize providers to enroll patients and clinical trial sponsors to target enrollment for underrepresented groups.