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Prevalence and Characteristics of Interventional Trials Conducted Exclusively in Elderly Persons: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Registered Clinical Trials

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients represent the greatest consumers of healthcare per capita but have historically been underrepresented in clinical trials. It is unknown how many trials are designed to focus exclusively on elderly patients. OBJECTIVE: To define the prevalence of interventional trials tha...

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Autores principales: Bourgeois, Florence T., Olson, Karen L., Tse, Tony, Ioannidis, John P. A., Mandl, Kenneth D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27196289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155948