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. 2016 Jan;2(1):137-9.
doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.3924.

Patient Income Level and Cancer Clinical Trial Participation: A Prospective Survey Study

Joseph M Unger  1 , Julie R Gralow  2 , Kathy S Albain  3 , Scott D Ramsey  4 , Dawn L Hershman  5
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Patient Income Level and Cancer Clinical Trial Participation: A Prospective Survey Study

Joseph M Unger et al. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Jan.
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Conflict of interest disclosures: The authors have no disclosures.

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Figure 1
Forest plot of the association of income and clinical trial participation by each factor included in the multivariable regression model. Each square represents an odds ratio (OR), and each horizontal line is the 95% CI. The vertical line is the line of equal odds. For lower-income individuals, the odds of clinical trial participation were consistently lower (that is, to the left of the line of equal odds) within nearly all subgroups of all the factors included in this analysis. Only some of these findings are statistically significant, likely due to limited power. There was no statistical evidence that the association of income and clinical trial participation differed according to any of the covariates (interaction p>.15 in all cases).
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