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Family Practice Advance Access published online on July 9, 2009
Family Practice, doi:10.1093/fampra/cmp045
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Do family doctors have an obligation to facilitate research?

Jonathan Ives, Heather Draper, Sarah Damery and Sue Wilson

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Correspondence to Jonathan Ives, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; E-mail: j.c.ives{at}bham.ac.uk

Received 11 March 2009; Revised 18 May 2009; Accepted 15 June 2009.


  Abstract

In the third of a series of articles examining ethical issues in primary care research, we argue that family doctors, when considering what they ought to do in relation to research, have a positive obligation to participate in research and that one means of discharging this obligation is to collaborate in research studies by aiding recruitment. We offer three arguments in support of this obligation–arguments from fairness, reason and utility. We then go on to specify a series of conditions on this obligation which take into account that doctors have many other obligations. These are the conditions of financial remuneration, reciprocity and ability.

Keywords. Research, obligation to participate, research collaboration, reciprocity.

Ives J, Draper H, Damery S and Wilson S. Do family doctors have an obligation to facilitate research? Family Practice 2009; Pages 1–6 of 6.


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