Conducting clinical trials only in India’s large cities is unlikely to sample the country’s ethnicity sufficiently well

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Current Science

Abstract

Around the world, there have been calls to include parti-cipants of diverse ethnicities in every clinical trial. In India, some years ago, a Parliamentary Committee was informed that trials are run in cosmopolitan cities of the country, and that this ensured suitable ethnic rep-resentation. The Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, has defined six zones of the country from where sampling needs to be done to ensure good ethnic coverage. We found that no city has adequate representa-tion from all the zones. However, possibly, a suitable sam-pling strategy in some cities could replace running trials from a few zones.

First Page

1514

Last Page

1517

DOI

10.18520/cs/v123/i12/1514-1517

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Comments

Open Access, Bronze

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