Ensuring that COVID-19 research is inclusive: guidance from the NIHR INCLUDE project.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide guidance to researchers, funders, regulators and study delivery teams to ensure that research on COVID-19 is inclusive, particularly of groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and who may have been historically under-served by research.

Summary of key points

Groups who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 include (but are not limited to) older people, people with multiple long-term conditions, people with disabilities, people from Black, Asian and Ethnic minority groups, people living with obesity, people who are socioeconomically deprived and people living in care homes. All these groups are under-served by clinical research, and there is an urgent need to rectify this if COVID-19 research is to deliver relevant evidence for these groups w

SUBMITTER: Witham MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646322 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature