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LINK Clinical Trials Have Far Too Little Racial and Ethnic Diversity - Scientific American

This is a huge issue. In general, the homogeneity of the clinical trial is a concern for getting generalizable effect sizes. This is why there is a movement toward the pragmatic clinical trial.

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Ubergooroo 5 Aug 29
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Level 5

Boo hoo it just shows that we don't care about race as much anymore.

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Level 6

This may or not be true depending on the study. The difference between races is minute in nearly all medical cases and cultural ones would be ethnic by definition. Diversity is always good, but this seems like it would be low priority.

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Guess it doesn't help when the journal name is Scientific America.

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Without reading the article yet, wouldn't access to those certain populations matter?

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