Purpose Patient engagement is influenced by institutional ideologies, professional attitudes
and patient readiness to accept new, engaged roles. This article provides an opportunity to …

OBJECTIVES: Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity (FHS) is working in six partner
countries in Asia and Africa, focusing on strengthening the research–policy interface in …

Background Community engagement may make research more relevant, translatable, and
sustainable, hence improving the possibility of reducing health disparities. The purpose of …

Participatory research is the science of partnerships underlying research, concerned with
research governance, ownership of research products, and relationships behind research …

• We found that there is no consistency of reporting and terminology for patient-oriented
research, and that a direct causal link between patient-oriented research and health policy …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Patients and healthcare stakeholders are increasingly
becoming engaged in the planning and conduct of biomedical research. However, limited …

PURPOSE Engaging patients, caregivers, and other health care stakeholders as partners in
planning, conducting, and disseminating research is a promising way to improve clinical …

Background Evidence, in multiple forms, is a foundation of implementation science. For
public health and clinical practice, evidence includes the following: type 1 evidence on …

Objectives Involvement of patients, health professionals, and the wider public
('stakeholders') is seen to be beneficial to the quality, relevance and impact of research and …

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