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71 Introduction According to projections of the U.S. Census Bureau, the demographics of the United States population will change dramatically over the next five decades.
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8 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 FIGURE 1-1 Percent of the population by race or ethnicity: 1990, 2000, 2025, and 2050.
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INTRODUCTION 9 health insurance. However, access to quality health care for these populations may also be affected by the diversity of the healthcare and clinical research workforce (NIH, 1994; Corbie-Smith et al., 1999; Giuliano et al., 2000; Killien et al., 2000; Gifford et al., 2002)
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10 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 LESSONS FROM THE BUSINESS SECTOR Researchers in the business sector have learned that a diversified staff facilitates marketing to a more diversified customer base, which increases market share (Allen and Montgomery, 2001)
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INTRODUCTION 11 the proportion of women students continues to increase, only those institutions able to recruit and retain women in all departments will have the best house staff, faculty, and administrators (Cox, 1993)
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12 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 disciplinary research and team science) and to issue recommendations for improvements in the training of nurse and physician clinical research investigators.
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INTRODUCTION 13 community. The primary obstacle cited is the dearth of data on the clinical research workforce.
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