Launch of our new patient and public involvement handbook

Have you thought about involving people with arthritis in your research but aren’t sure how to go about it? Have you been looking for examples of good patient and public involvement (PPI)? We’re delighted to announce the publication of our new handbook,Patient and Public Involvement– a Researcher’s Guide (PDF 8.2 MB), which can answer all of these questions and more.In line withour strategy, our focus is to put people with arthritis at the heart of everything we do and ensure our decisions are guided by their perspective. Evidence has proven that meaningful patient involvement increases the quality of research and helps to ensure that studies with patient participation are as safe, sensitive and ethical as possible. In clinical research, patient involvement can improve participant recruitment and retention.Our new handbook aims to support you to integrate PPI in your work so that it enhances your research. It contains information on:Why you should involve people with arthritis in your researchguidance for basic researchersguidance for clinical researcherstop tips on how to meaningfully involve people with arthritiscase studiesuseful resources.Professor Luke O’Neill, Chair of our disease subcommittee, comments“Having patient insight partners in committee discussions has been a really positive move. They cut through jargon and ask the simple but important questions that we scientists rarely do”.The handbook complements our PPI and commu...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news