Title
The Exclusion of Older Persons From Vaccine and Treatment Trials for Coronavirus Disease 2019-Missing the Target
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Emergency Medicine; School of Medicine; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, MD/PhD Program
Publication Date
2020-09-28
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Clinical Trials | Epidemiology | Geriatrics | Health Services Administration | Infectious Disease | Patient Safety | Virus Diseases
Abstract
This cross-sectional study evaluates the risk of exclusion for older adults in randomized clinical trials for treatment and vaccine interventions in coronavirus disease 2019.
Keywords
oronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, randomized clinical trials, vaccine trials, older adults, exclusion
DOI of Published Version
10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5084
Source
Helfand BKI, Webb M, Gartaganis SL, Fuller L, Kwon CS, Inouye SK. The Exclusion of Older Persons From Vaccine and Treatment Trials for Coronavirus Disease 2019-Missing the Target. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Sep 28:e205084. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5084. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32986099; PMCID: PMC7522773. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
JAMA internal medicine
Related Resources
PubMed ID
32986099
Repository Citation
Helfand BK, Webb M, Gartaganis SL, Fuller L, Kwon C, Inouye SK. (2020). The Exclusion of Older Persons From Vaccine and Treatment Trials for Coronavirus Disease 2019-Missing the Target. COVID-19 Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5084. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/covid19/130
Comments
Funding/Support: Supported in part by Grant R24AG054259 (Inouye) from the National Institute on Aging and T32GM107000 (Helfand) Training Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.