Minorities In Medical Studies

Minority Representation in Clinical Trials in the United …

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(20)31259-3/fulltext

All members of society need to be represented in medical research, but there is major under-representation of racial and ethnic minorities in clinical trials.1 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act was created in 1993 to increase the inclusion …

Diversity & Inclusion in Clinical Trials - NIMHD

https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/resources/understanding-health-disparities/diversity-and-inclusion-in-clinical-trials.html

Diversity in Medicine: Facts and Figures …

https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/report/diversity-medicine-facts-and-figures-2019

Race and ethnicity data were missing for 13.7% of active physicians; most of these physicians (80%) were age 60 or older and many were not U.S. MDs (53% were …

Clinical Trial Diversity | FDA - U.S. Food and Drug …

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/minority-health-and-health-equity/clinical-trial-diversity

Minorities have low rates of participation in clinical trials. This is a concern because people of different ages, races, and ethnicities, may react differently to medical …

Communicating the Value of Race and …

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/science-health-public-trust/perspectives/science-health-public-trust/communicating-value-race-ethnicity-research

The inclusion of minorities affects more than minority health and health disparities. It is also a question …

Minority Health & Health Disparities | NIH: National …

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/minority-health-disparities

Minority Health & Health Disparities. Health disparities are gaps in the quality of health and health care that mirror differences in socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic background, …

Clinical Trial Diversity | FDA

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/minority-health-and-health-equity-resources/clinical-trial-diversity

Participants in clinical trials should represent the patients that will use the medical products. This is often not the case—people from racial and ethnic minority and …

Recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities to clinical trials ...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29454389/

Background: Despite efforts to increase diversity in clinical trials, racial/ethnic minority groups generally remain underrepresented, limiting researchers' …

Study Reveals Racial and Demographic Disparities in …

https://www.verywellmind.com/racial-disparities-clinical-trials-5114529

The numbers and percentages of racial/ethnic minority, female, and older individuals in the research studies were compared with US census data from 2011 and …

Minorities Are Underrepresented in Clinical …

https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20181204lv-clinicaltrials.html

Ada Stewart, M.D., writes in this Leader Voices Blog post that an analysis of clinical drug trials found that certain minority groups are underrepresented, even when …