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Barriers to Medical Research Participation as Perceived by Clinical Trial Investigators: Communicating with Rural and African American Communities

Andrea Tanner School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Sei-Hill Kim School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Daniela B. Friedman Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Caroline Foster School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Caroline D. Bergeron Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Pages 88-96 | Published online: 10 Sep 2014

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