Clinical research: Should patients pay to play?

Ezekiel J Emanuel; Steven Joffe; Christine Grady; David Wendler; Govind Persad

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aac5204

Clinical research: Should patients pay to play?

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Jul 29;7(298):298ps16. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac5204.

Authors

Ezekiel J Emanuel¹, Steven Joffe¹, Christine Grady², David Wendler², Govind Persad³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19146-6303, USA.
² Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
³ Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2155, USA.

PMID: 26223299
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac5204

Abstract

Permitting patients to pay for participation in clinical research threatens the principles of social value and fair subject selection as well as robust clinical trial design.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / economics
Biomedical Research / ethics
Human Experimentation / ethics*
Humans
Patient Selection / ethics*
Patients
Social Values