Representation of people with comorbidity and multimorbidity in clinical trials of novel drug therapies: an individual-level participant data analysis

Abstract Background Clinicians are less likely to prescribe guideline-recommended treatments to people with multimorbidity than to people with a single condition. Doubts as to the applicability of clinical trials of drug treatments (the gold standard for evidence-based medicine) when people have co-...

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Published in:BMC Medicine
Main Authors: Peter Hanlon, Laurie Hannigan, Jesus Rodriguez-Perez, Colin Fischbacher, Nicky J. Welton, Sofia Dias, Frances S. Mair, Bruce Guthrie, Sarah Wild, David A. McAllister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Subjects:
Randomised controlled trials
Comorbidity
Multimorbidity
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-019-1427-1

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