Including older people in clinical research -- McMurdo et al. 331 (7524): 1036 -- BMJ

Including older people in clinical research -- McMurdo et al. 331 (7524): 1036 -- BMJ

Sent by: Marcelo Gustavo Colominas [mailto:mgcolominas@hotmail.com]
Enviada em: domingo, 13 de novembro de 2005 21:47
Para: cardtran@fac.org.ar; epi-pcvc@fac.org.ar
Assunto: Including older people in clinical research

BMJ 2005;331:1036-1037
Including older people in clinical research

Benefits shown in trials in younger people may not apply to older people

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7524/1036

There are more old people alive today than at any time in history. Older
people are, quite rightly, "the core business of the NHS."1 The need to be
able to draw on the results of good quality research to inform best practice
in the specific management of older people is compelling. So we might expect
that researchers would have eagerly embraced the participation of older
people in clinical trials. Yet this is not the case. What do clinicians and
researchers have to do to redress the serious bias against older people in
clinical research?
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Marcelo G. Colominas
SCChaco