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Edited by
Frederick P. Rivara, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle,Peter Cummings, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle,Thomas D. Koepsell, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle,David C. Grossman, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle,Ronald V. Maier, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle
Injury control research may involve healthy control subjects as well as injured cases. Three topics emerge as particularly important ethical considerations in injury control research: the protection of vulnerable subjects, variations on the informed consent process, and maintaining the confidentiality of research data. This chapter examines each of these topics in the context of injury control research and provide examples of the ethical issues involved in each. The types of vulnerable populations in injury research include: victims of intimate partner violence, cognitively impaired subjects, critically injured trauma patients, minors, incarcerated persons or ones involved in illegal activities, and non-English or non-native speakers. The ethical issue of respect also comes in to play with regard to confidentiality and sharing of data. Research data may be obtained by a variety of methods, whether primary or secondary data, and from public and nonpublic sources.