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Spotlight on Pain Management

Optimizing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Findings from the Pain Management Collaboratory


by Travis Lovejoy, PhD
Seminar date: 11/5/2024

Description: Increasing attention has been devoted to the idea of justice as a conduit for the ethical inclusion of individuals in clinical research, including people with multiple intersecting marginalized identities. This presentation describes challenges posed, and opportunities provided, with pain pragmatic clinical trial designs, emphasizing approaches that optimize the inclusion of social identity groups that have historically been underrepresented in pain research.

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