Letters
Recruitment into covid-19 trials
Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials: fund nursing trials
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n601 (Published 03 March 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n601
- David A Richards, professor of mental health services research and head of nursing
- College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, St Luke’s Campus, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK
- d.a.richards{at}exeter.ac.uk
One can only agree wholeheartedly with Darzi and colleagues’ call for better recruitment into SARS-COV-2 treatment trials.1 Sadly, no mention is made of trials for nursing care.
Patient experience of nursing care is correlated with safety, clinical effectiveness, care quality, treatment outcomes, and service use, yet no specific pandemic nursing care guidelines exist, and nurses remain in the dark as to the best way to care …