Challenges to conducting research with older people living in nursing homes

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hall, Sue ^a   Longhurst, Susan ^a   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING HOME; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIVACY; STAFF; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME FOR THE AGED; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349312905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-38     Document Type: Article

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