[IxDA Discuss] Thank you!

[Maral Haar]

Thank you to everyone who gave me information about other companies
practice of reimbursement for participants in the medical domain. I
also asked the same question on another mailing list, so here I give
you the short summary of the responses. If someone would like to add
or comment, I still appreciate every information on that!

Summary

The FDA states that "it is not uncommon for subjects to be paid for
their participation in research, especially in the early phases of
investigational drug, biologic or device development. Payment to
research subjects for participation in studies is not considered a
benefit, it is a recruitment incentive."

Various companies pay clinicians for participating in studies. They
pay between $20 and $ 100 per hour, where around $50 seems to be
adequate for many companies. The amount of money may depend on the
participants profession (sometimes doctors are paid higher than
nurses) and on the accomplishing company (pure research institutes pay
less than manufacturers or other commercial companies). Only one
researcher stated that for studies of les than an hour they don't pay.
One company pays the hospital to allow clinicians to participate
during their work time and additionally give the participants a small
gift about $20 worth. An alternative mentioned by someone who used to
work in an area of similar ethical constrains is to donate the amount
of money which would normally be paid to participants of a usability
study.

Thank you everybody and have a nice weekend,

Maral