Recruitment and retention strategies for improving representation in clinical research: A meta-synthesis

• Carson J. Peters ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carson J. Peters, Joan M. Greve

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joan M. Greve ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carson J. Peters, Joan M. Greve

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Small Business Innovation Research Development Center, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Arvin Karbasi ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-9647

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• Michelle Walker ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Luyi Adesanya ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

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• Joyonna Gamble-George ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Nursing, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5492-9216

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• Nicole Redmond,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Brenda Adjei,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Associate Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Olufunmilola Olufemi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Olufunmilola.olufemi@nih.gov

  Affiliation Office of Technology Transfer, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4105-7481

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