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The Persistent Exclusion of Older Patients From Ongoing Clinical Trials Regarding Heart Failure
Author(s) -
Antonio Cherubini,
J. Oristrell,
Xavier Pla Barbero,
Carmelinda Ruggiero,
Roberta Ferretti,
Germán Diestre,
A. Mark Clarfield,
Peter Crome,
Cees M.P.M. Hertogh,
Vita Lesauskaitė,
Gabriel Ioan Prada,
Katarzyna Szczerbińska,
Eva Topinková,
Judith Sinclair-Cohen,
David Edbrooke,
Gary Mills
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.31
Subject(s) - clinical trial , medicine , heart failure , inclusion and exclusion criteria , context (archaeology) , disease , age limit , heart disease , gerontology , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , demography , pathology , paleontology , biology , sociology
Much clinical research of relevance to elderly patients examines individuals who are younger than those who have the disease in question. A good example is heart failure. Therefore, we investigated the extent of exclusion of older individuals in ongoing clinical trials regarding heart failure.

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