Offering payments, reimbursement and incentives to patients and family doctors to encourage participation in research

Family Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-238

  Draper, Heather ^a   Wilson, Sue ^a   Flanagan, Sarah ^a   Ives, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inducements in research; Payments in research; Reimbursements in research; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; FEE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORALITY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; REWARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 66749123526     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmp011     Document Type: Article

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