Letter
Including care home residents in clinical research is fraught
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BMJ
2005;331:1271.4
- Arnold G Zermansky, senior research fellow (zermansky@btinternet.com)
- School of Healthcare Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9UT
EDITOR—Funders need to take account of issues related to including older people in clinical trials,1 but including care home residents poses additional problems.
We have just completed a large clinical trial of a pharmacist conducting clinical medication reviews of elderly residents of care homes. Obtaining consent presented particular problems in this population with an average age of 85 and a standardised mini-mental state test score of 13. Even those …
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