There is growing evidence that involving patients and other health care stakeholders in all aspects of the clinical research process can make studies and the results they produce more relevant and useful to those who need the evidence to make important care decisions, articles in a new special supplemental issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) suggest.
How to make health research more relevant to patients and veterans? Make them partners in the research process
There is growing evidence that involving patients and other health care stakeholders in all aspects of the clinical research process can make studies and the results they produce more relevant and useful to those who need the evidence to make important care decisions, articles in a new special supplemental issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) suggest.