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Stanley Joel Reiser, MD, PhD

JAMA. 2005;293:613-614.

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The question of how to foster and reward research participation has 2 basic facets. One involves examining the issue from the perspective of the needs and traditions of research per se. A second facet, often neglected in discourse on the matter, is the influence of research compensation decisions on the fabric of medicine itself, particularly when it creates financial exchanges between investigators and participants. This article engages these intertwined matters.

The article by Dunn and Gordon¹ draws attention to the difficult problem of recruiting research participants whose collective backgrounds mirror the population being examined. The authors maintain that the level of monetary compensation influences the participant sample created by investigators to study, which in turn requires a payment schedule that draws individuals from different income strata into given research projects. The authors do not indicate how they would determine compensation sums or convincingly deal with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Research Participation

Author Affiliation: John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas Medical School, Houston.

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