Reporting race/ethnicity in epilepsy clinical trials
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1Epilepsy Programme, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., N5X 2Y6 Canada. jburneo@uwo.ca <jburneo@uwo.ca>
Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B
|September 24, 2004
Abstract:
The increasing necessity to address and answer questions regarding disparities in epilepsy among different racial/ethnic groups is not being fulfilled. The present study found that only 6.6% of clinical trials in epilepsy reported the race/ethnicity of study participants, and only 1.9% did try to analyze possible differences between them.
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