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Payment to Research Participants

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Research payments may take on many forms, from money to gifts, reimbursement and even free medical care. Though not inherently unethical, payments do carry the potential for coercion or undue inducement. Research subjects may take on unwarranted personal health risks to participate in studies that pay subjects. Not only is this unethical in the treatment of research subjects, but subjects enticed to participate may skew or invalidate research results. Additionally, payment after injury remains an ongoing area of controversy. Although ethically just, compensation after research injury is not a legal mandate at this time and remains an area for current ethical and legal debate.

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  1. Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Jennifer Tseng & Peter Angelos

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  1. Department of Surgery, Boston VA Healthcare System Department of Surgery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA

    Kamal M.F. Itani

  2. Depatment of Veteran Affairs, Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, USA

    Domenic J. Reda

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Tseng, J., Angelos, P. (2017). Payment to Research Participants. In: Itani, K., Reda, D. (eds) Clinical Trials Design in Operative and Non Operative Invasive Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53877-8_24

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