Racial/ethnic disparities in ophthalmology clinical trials of FDA-approved drugs

What The Study Did: Researchers investigated racial/ethnic representation in clinical trials that led to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of ophthalmology drugs from 2000 to 2020.

Authors: Shriji Patel, M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.0857)

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