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Slot: retention_incentives

Where the sources describe it, how the incentive structure was designed to keep participants enrolled across the study — escalating amounts, completion bonuses, payments tied to later visits or to returning after a gap.

Distinct from compensation_type and compensation_amount, which record what was provided. State this only where a source describes the structure. An escalating payment schedule is not by itself evidence that retention was its purpose; report the schedule under the compensation slots and leave this absent.

⚠️ "Retention" here means keeping participants enrolled, never keeping data. How long the data is kept belongs in retention_limit, which is a different slot about a different subject. The word is treacherous in this corpus: across all five project bundles nearly every occurrence of "retention" is about data or specimen retention — "limits on the retention of the data", "bioSpecRetention", "records retention requirements" — and none so far describes an incentive structure. An empty slot is the correct outcome for those sources.

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URI: d4d:retentionIncentiveStructure Alias: retention_incentives

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
HumanSubjectCompensation What participants received, and — where the sources describe one — how that w... no

Properties

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
d4d:docExample Payment rises across the annual visits, with a completion bonus at the final visit, described in the protocol as designed to reduce loss to follow-up.

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/bridge2ai/data-sheets-schema

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self d4d:retentionIncentiveStructure
native data_sheets_schema:retention_incentives

LinkML Source

name: retention_incentives
annotations:
  d4d:docExample:
    tag: d4d:docExample
    value: Payment rises across the annual visits, with a completion bonus at the
      final visit, described in the protocol as designed to reduce loss to follow-up.
description: 'Where the sources describe it, how the incentive structure was designed
  to keep participants enrolled across the study — escalating amounts, completion
  bonuses, payments tied to later visits or to returning after a gap.

  Distinct from `compensation_type` and `compensation_amount`, which record what was
  provided. State this only where a source describes the structure. An escalating
  payment schedule is not by itself evidence that retention was its purpose; report
  the schedule under the compensation slots and leave this absent.

  ⚠️ **"Retention" here means keeping participants enrolled, never keeping data.**
  How long the data is kept belongs in `retention_limit`, which is a different slot
  about a different subject. The word is treacherous in this corpus: across all five
  project bundles nearly every occurrence of "retention" is about data or specimen
  retention — "limits on the retention of the data", "bioSpecRetention", "records
  retention requirements" — and none so far describes an incentive structure. An empty
  slot is the correct outcome for those sources.

  '
from_schema: https://w3id.org/bridge2ai/data-sheets-schema
rank: 1000
slot_uri: d4d:retentionIncentiveStructure
alias: retention_incentives
owner: HumanSubjectCompensation
domain_of:
- HumanSubjectCompensation
range: string