Underrepresentation of Black Participants in Systemic Sclerosis Clinical Trials: The United States and Southeast Region

This repository contains supplementary data and R code used for analyses and results presented in the brief report titled "Underrepresentation of Black Participants in Systemic Sclerosis Clinical Trials: The United States and Southeast Region" by Mara Hartoyo, Natalie Goulett, Dr. Danyelle Dawes, and Dr. Andrea Maderal. This is the first study to quantify this underrepresentation in the overall U.S. population and specifically in the U.S. Southeast region.

Please see ssc_methods_no_results.docx for the methods section of our paper, complete with formulae and data source descriptions. SScCtDisparitiesAnalysis.qmd contains the code used for statistical analyses. All calculations for rate and population estimates can be found in SSc_Estimates.xlsx. The detailed inclusion criteria for clinical trials selected for this study as well as the trials included can be found in Supplemental Material.docx.