There’s one question that MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher Jennifer Dahne, Ph.D., co-director of the remote and virtual trials program at the South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute, hears more than any other as she consults with clinical researchers about how to set up remote trials, also known as decentralized trials. Will these trials overcome the barriers that make it difficult for minority and underserved populations to participate in clinical trials? It’s also a question she often discusses with her peers at other academic medical centers that are also home to Clinical and Translational Science Award hubs.
Dahne thinks it’s too soon to give a definitive answer to that question. She argues in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association Viewpoint article and in the linked Q&A that rigorous evidence is lacking as to how these trials affect the diversity of clinical trial enrollment…
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