PPI Unit I 2015
PPI 2015 Unit I
4. Lesson 1 Key concepts & definitions
4.6. Lesson 1c Benefits
It is claimed that patient and public involvement improves the quality, relevance and impact of research.
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“No matter how complicated the research, or how brilliant the researcher, patients and the public always offer unique, invaluable insights. Their advice when designing, implementing and evaluating research invariably makes studies more effective, more credible and often more cost efficient as well”. Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer |
These are some of the proposed benefits:
- It ensures research is relevant to the needs of patients and society
- It improves study design
- It improves recruitment and retention
- It improves communication between researchers and participants and between researchers and the public