Systematic review examines why pregnant and lactating women worldwide do – or don’t – participate in clinical trials

Systematic review examines why pregnant and lactating women worldwide do – or don’t – participate in clinical trials

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004405

Article Title: Factors influencing the participation of pregnant and lactating women in clinical trials: A mixed-methods systematic review

Author Countries: Australia, India, Thailand

Funding: The research in this publication was supported by funding from MSD (grant MFM-22-159697 to Concept Foundation), through its MSD for Mothers initiative (https://www.msdformothers.com/) and is the sole responsibility of the authors. MSD for Mothers is an initiative of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, U.S.A. MAB’s time is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200100264) and a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship (University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences). JPV is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grant (GNT1194248). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.