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- Re:Is patient involvement an essential component of good clinical research?Show More
Prof. McGregor urges me to resist displaying hubris - which is "excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance." Perhaps Prof. McGregor misunderstands my motive in writing this editorial. In truth, using the platform I am so privileged to have, I am advocating for our profession to move away from the hubristic notions that physicians - and medical researchers - know best what patients value, without bothering to ask them....
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I applaud the editors of CMAJ for supporting enhanced patient engagement in research. I wish to clarify one small point. This editorial cites our article for the quotation "easier, healthier patients." These are not our words. This is a direct quotation from a paper entitled "General Practice Services Committee: Improving Primary Care for BC Physicians and Patients," which is cited in our paper and below [1]. The full p...
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Dr. Patrick's call for greater patient-involvement in research and a focus on patient-focused outcomes is timely and critical, and I applaud CMAJ for taking this important position.
As a public health physician, the involvement of key stakeholders in planning, research, and evaluation of policies and programs has long been well understood - even if it faces deployment challenges in practice. Community-based pa...
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In a recent editorial (Realizing the vision of patient-relevant clinical research), Kirsten Patrick propounds the view that patient involvement should be an essential component of clinical research. "Patients and their caregivers" she states, "must be involved in decision- making at all steps in the research process, from design to choice of primary and secondary outcomes,.....". As an example of failure to do this she c...
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