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Unjustified exclusion of elderly people from studies submitted to research ethics committee for approval
— descriptive study | | Author(s) | Antony Bayer, Win Tadd |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 321, no 7267, 21 October 2000 |
| Pages | pp 992-993 |
| Keywords | Therapeutics ; Research ; Social ethics ; Ageism. |
| Annotation | The authors were interested in whether research protocols submitted to the local research ethics committee contained unjustified upper age limits and how the committee dealt with this. Of 155 studies of relevance to older people, more than half had an upper age limit that was unjustified. Negative stereotyping of older people was reflected in comments in the studies that participants need to be "fully competent", "reliable" or "without cognitive impairment". One argument for an upper age limit is that it minimises rate of dropout. However, the authors know of no evidence that older people are less compliant with the demands of research protocols. Ethics committees are in a strong position to influence research practice, and the authors urge more positive attitudes towards older people. This paper is part of the BMJ's randomised controlled trial of open peer review. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001122218 A |
| Classmark | LL: 3A: TQ: B:TOB * |
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