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The special problems of conducting clinical trials in elderly patients

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

Jacqueline Bene  and
Richard Liston
Jacqueline Bene
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Richard Liston
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Abstract

It is frequently observed that medical treatments are evaluated in patient populations which have characteristics significantly different from those of patients upon whom the treatments will be used once established in clinical practice. The most striking illustration of this has been the almost complete exclusion, until recently, of elderly patients from trials of new medication. Whereas clinical trials include younger adults with a single pathology, the real world of patient care is dominated by older adults with multiple pathology.

Type
Review Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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