Jessica A Cao, Sagar B Patel, Calvin W Wong, David Garcia, Jose Munoz, Cassandra Cone, Deneva Zamora, Mary Reagan, Tieu V Nguyen, Will Pearce, Richard H Fish, David M Brown, Varun Chaudhary, Charles C Wykoff, Kenneth C Fan
Historically marginalized populations are disproportionately affected by many diseases that commonly affect the retina, yet they have been traditionally underrepresented in prospective clinical trials. This study explores whether this disparity affects the clinical trial enrollment process in the retina field and aims to inform future trial recruitment and enrollment. Age, gender, race, ethnicity, preferred language, insurance status, social security number (SSN) status, and median household income (estimated using street address and zip code) for patients referred to at least one prospective, retina-focused clinical trial at a large, urban, retina-based practice were retrospectively extracted using electronic medical records...
May 23, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine