INTRODUCTION Clinical research is essential for the advancement of Medicine, especially regarding the development of new drugs. Understanding the reasons behind patients' decision of participating in these studies is critical for the recruitment and retention in the research. OBJECTIVES To examine the decision-making of participants in biomedical research, taking into account different settin...

BACKGROUND Public health monitoring depends on valid health and disability estimates in the population 65+ years. This is hampered by high non-participation rates in this age group. There is limited insight into size and direction of potential baseline selection bias. METHODS We analyzed baseline non-participation in a register-based random sample of 1481 inner-city residents 65+ years, invit...

This document describes the experiences of Comcast, a large cable broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the U.S., in a Proactive Network Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) technical trial in July 2008. This trial used P4P iTracker technology, which is being considered by the IETF as part of the Application Layer Transport Optimization (ALTO) working group.

participation in clinical trials can be useful for the health of a person, in who it is conducted, but it does not have to be - it can even be harmful. therefore, primary motive to accept such risk is humanity and human wish to contribute to the progress of medicine; this is expressed by personal consent. the consent, however, can be an expression of personal humanity, and for this, it is not l...