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. 2018 Aug 7;115(32):8051-8053.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810920115.

Opinion: Risk to study nonparticipants: A procedural approach

Nir Eyal  1 , Marc Lipsitch  2   3 , Till Bärnighausen  4   5 , Dan Wikler  4
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Opinion: Risk to study nonparticipants: A procedural approach

Nir Eyal et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Research on human subjects can affect people other than the subjects. What protections are owed to study nonparticipants? Image courtesy of Dave Cutler (artist).
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