Data Linkage to Improve Geriatric Oncology Research: A Feasibility Study

Data Linkage to Improve Geriatric Oncology Research: A Feasibility Study

Older adults (aged 65 years and older) diagnosed with cancer account for most cancer-related morbidity and mortality in the United States but are often underrepresented on clinical trials. Recent attention from a variety of professional, research, regulatory, and patient advocacy groups has centered on data linkage and data sharing as a means to capture patient information and outcomes outside ...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health

Commentary As a charitable research foundation, the Wellcome Trust is strongly committed to ensuring that the outputs of the research we support—including research publications and data—can be accessed and used in a manner that delivers the greatest possible benefit to global health. In common with other research funders around the world, we believe that many of the increasingly rich and comple...

Sharing research data to improve public health.

The purpose of medical research is to analyse and understand health and disease. A key and expensive element is the study of populations to explore how interactions between behaviour and environment, in the context of genetic diversity, determine causation and variation in health and disease. As funders of public health research, we need to ensure that research outputs are used to maxi mise kno...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment in oncology.

The incidence of cancer increases with advanced age and the majority of cancer deaths are in patients aged ≥ 65. The geriatric population is a heterogeneous group and a patient's chronologic age does not always correlate with underlying physiologic status. Oncologists need to be able to obtain information on physiologic and functional capacity in older patients in order to provide safe and effe...