Scaling crowdsourced health studies: The emergence of a new form of contract research organization

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-234

  Swan, Melanie ^a  

^a MS Futures Group   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; clinical trials; crowdsourced health studies; crowdsourcing; health research

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CERTIFICATION; CONTRACT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; CROWDSOURCED HEALTH STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNDING; GENOTYPE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MANAGEMENT; MARKET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; STUDY DESIGN; WELLBEING;

EID: 84858401117     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pme.11.97     Document Type: Review

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