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Health Equity: Diversity in Clinical Trials - Coggle Diagram
Health Equity: Diversity in Clinical Trials
Medication
Individual differences impact medication effectiveness
Gender
Genetics
Age
Weight
Ethnicity
Approved medications may not work for everyone
We won't know if they do not participate in the trials
Plavix
Difficulties
Scheduling
Some can't afford to take off work
Travel
Expensive
Not worth the compensation
Uneven recruitment
Most come from large academic medical centers
Unequal population representation
Lack of physician referals
Distrust
Lack of governmental pressure
FDA called out the lack of diversity but didn't enforce change
Racism in science
Eugenics
Implicit bias
Segregated hospitals
Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Hospital
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Benefits
More effective treatments
New discoveries
HeLa cells