Excluding older, sicker patients from clinical trials: issues, concerns, and solutions
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Insight on the issues (AARP Public Policy Institute)
- Contributor(s):
- Lind, Keith D. AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization))
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2011
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Clinical Trials as Topic Patient Selection Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Aged Aged, 80 and over Chronic Disease Cost-Benefit Analysis Frail Elderly Sample Size Selection Bias Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This Insight on the Issues discusses issues, concerns, and possible approaches to expanding clinical trials to include older people and those with chronic conditions to make research more relevant for clinicians treating these people.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101576285 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101576285