A successful collaborative approach to the recruitment of patients with Alzheimer's disease to antidementia drug trials

Abstract

There exist numerous difficulties in the recruitment of patients to drug trials for Alzheimer's disease. This article describes a successful community-based case-finding strategy. The success is largely attributed to effective liaison between the co-ordinating psychiatrist, GPs, community psychiatric nurses and practice nurses.

Key Words:

• Alzheimer's disease
• case-finding
• drug trial