Understanding why older people participate in clinical trials: The experience of the Scottish PROSPER participants

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 374-378

  Tolmie, Elizabeth P ^a   Mungall, Moira M B ^b   Louden, Greig ^c   Lindsay, Grace M ^a   Gaw, Allan ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; PROSPER; Randomised controlled clinical trial; Recruitment; Retention

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PRAVASTATIN;

AGED; ALTRUISM; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELDERLY CARE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTIVATION; PRAVASTATIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 4043120397     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh109     Document Type: Article

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