Published on in Vol 24, No 5 (2022): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/31231, first published .
Ethical Issues in Social Media Recruitment for Clinical Studies: Ethical Analysis and Framework

Ethical Issues in Social Media Recruitment for Clinical Studies: Ethical Analysis and Framework

Ethical Issues in Social Media Recruitment for Clinical Studies: Ethical Analysis and Framework

Bettina M Zimmermann   1, 2 * , DPhil ;   Theresa Willem   1, 3 * , MA ;   Carl Justus Bredthauer   1 , BA ;   Alena Buyx   1 , DrMed

1 Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

2 Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

3 Department of Science, Technology and Society, School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

*these authors contributed equally

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