Improving informed consent and enhancing recruitment for research by understanding economic behavior
THE USE OF FINANCIAL COMPENSATION AS A RECRUIT-ment tool in medical research
continues to be de-bated on ethical grounds. Critics are against economic or market models,
in which market forces determine payment practices, primarily because of the perceived
undue inducement potential1-11 and on other grounds, 1, 12 including that participants from
lower socioeconomic levels bear a disproportionate share of the research burden. 3 Many of
these arguments apply not only to the purest market model but to any model in which …
continues to be de-bated on ethical grounds. Critics are against economic or market models,
in which market forces determine payment practices, primarily because of the perceived
undue inducement potential1-11 and on other grounds, 1, 12 including that participants from
lower socioeconomic levels bear a disproportionate share of the research burden. 3 Many of
these arguments apply not only to the purest market model but to any model in which …
