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Vol. 152 No. 1112 (2022)

Financial incentives for participants in health research: when are they ethical?

  • Tania Manríquez Roa
  • Nikola Biller-Andorno
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2022;152:w30166
Published
16.03.2022

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