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Think of which expression you use: ‘cirrhotic patient’ or ‘a patient with cirrhosis’. Nurses will pick ‘a patient with cirrhosis’ because their training enables an intuitive understanding of the patient as a person — more emphasis on the person is needed.
Declining recruitment rates in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) trials have resulted in calls to modify the conduct of trials in IBD in order to make them more efficient and patient centred. Here, we propose a number of potential modifications.