STUDY: Measuring racial and ethnic diversity within medical trials could be key to improving research into cancer and other diseases.
, that calls for trials to have a diversity officer to monitor if inclusion targets are being reached and for review boards to verify those targets.
Under the DRIVE strategy, a trial would get a zero if there is less than 20% representation of all demographic groups affected by the disease being studied, and a score of 5 if that representation reaches 80%. The strategy would require researchers to have a score of 3 before they can present their work at major medical conferences or be published in major journals.
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