Compensation for Injured Research Subjects

Compensation for the subjects of medical research.

Unconditional compensation: reducing the costs of disagreement about compensation for research subjects.

A central requirement of research involving humans is that people who participate as subjects should do so voluntarily. We argue that disagreements about the effect of offers of compensation on subjects' ability to participate voluntarily are likely to persist and to have high social costs. We propose a novel compensation practice--to pay potential subjects whether or not they participate--and ...

Neural Prostheses for Spinal Cord Injured Subjects

A functional electrical stimulation system with surface electrodes and four stimulation channels was developed. The proposed system was used to design two neural prostheses for spinal cord injured subjects and stroke subjects. One prosthesis was used to restore a grasping function in high lesioned tetraplegic subjects. The other prosthesis was used to eliminate the ‘drop foot’ problem in incomp...

Abstract for research with injured pedestrians

The research findings suggest that while an overwhelming majority of Victorians consider driving with a BAC of 0.1% to be unacceptable, less than two-thirds consider that exceeding the speed limit by 10km/h is socially unacceptable. Around three-quarters of Victorians consider illegal driving behaviour to be unacceptable and behave accordingly. The remainder can be grouped into those who hold t...

Informed Consent Documents submitted for initial review: what do they state about compensation for injured research participants?

BACKGROUND Research carries a small but definite risk of injury to participants. However, there is no unanimity amongst the stakeholders regarding the nature and extent of compensation to be provided to an injured participant. AIMS To determine the extent to which issues related to the provision of free treatment and compensation for research-related injury are addressed in the protocols subm...