Table 1 Categories of research risk [3, 12, 23]
From: Informed consent in paediatric critical care research – a South African perspective
Research category | Benefit | Example |
|---|---|---|
1. Not greater than minimal risk interventions | ● Unlikely to be individual benefit | Additional testing on routinely collected specimens |
● Likely to yield generalisable knowledge | ||
2. Interventions posing minor increase over minimal risk | ● No direct benefit to individual child participant | Drawing blood for analysis |
● Likely to yield generalisable knowledge | ||
3. Interventions posing greater than minimal risk | ● Possibility of direct benefit to individual child participant | Clinical drug trials |
● Will yield generalisable knowledge |