Testimonials: Why Did You Go into Palliative Care Research?
November 6, 2018
Palliative care research is a relatively new field. The number of researchers and the quality of the science is still…
Informed consent in social media research
July 4, 2014
I’m simultaneously a behavioral researcher, an ethicist, and a hopeless Facebook addict, so I’ve been thinking a lot about last…
The (Ir)Relevance of Medical Research to Older Patients
August 8, 2011
Research studies often are conducted as if older patient’s don’t exist. Even when the disease being studied predominantly effects older…
Look SHARP
June 14, 2011
(well, maybe not) Last week, results of the SHARP trialwere released with great fanfare. In this study, investigators randomized over…
The confusing morass of medical evidence
May 25, 2011
Practitioners of evidence-based medicine use published evidence from the medical literature to guide them as they try to provide the…
Management of COPD: Lets Just Pretend Older Patients Don’t Exist
March 28, 2011
We have previously discussed on GeriPal how the exclusion of older persons from research has left us clueless about how…
Are Most Published Studies Lies?
December 18, 2010
A couple of recent articles in the lay press expose the fallacy that publication in a scientific journal means “it…
Desktop Medicine: Here to Stay
November 21, 2010
I want to draw readers attention to a brilliant essay in JAMA by Jason Karlawish. He describes a new concept of…
Age Discrimination in Clinical Research: Time For Action
October 10, 2010
Older persons are often severely underrepresented in clinical trials of new drugs, therapies, and devices. Usually, their exclusion from these…
Health Status Does Not Equal Quality of LIfe
June 3, 2010
Advance Care Planning · Communication · End-of-Life · Geriatrics · Healthcare · Quality of Life · Relationships · Research · Seniors
If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…