Knowledge and access to information on recruitment of underrepresented populations to cancer clinical trials.

Review Specific inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied at each of the levels of review, with criteria becoming more stringent as the process moved from searching, to the review of titles, to the review of abstracts, and to the review of articles. After identifying a title as potentially relevant, two team members independently reviewed the abstract of the citation, and articles were included or excluded from the article review on this basis. Disagreements between reviewers were adjudicated by consensus. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria During the abstract review process, emphasis was placed on identifying all articles that could have original data pertinent to the questions about recruitment of underrepresented populations into cancer prevention and treatment trials. As previously described, representatives from NCI were consulted during the development of inclusion and exclusion criteria. In evaluating titles and abstracts, the following criteria were used to exclude articles from further consideration: ● Not written in English. ● Did not include human data.