Lay perspectives: advantages for health research
- 7 February 1998
- Vol. 316 (7129), 463-466
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.316.7129.463
Abstract
We outline two basic reasons for incorporating lay perspectives into research and discuss some common objections. A framework is offered to help clarify the dimensions of lay involvement in health research. We use the term “lay” to mean people who are neither health care professionals nor health services researchers, but who may have specialised knowledge related to health. This includes patients, the general public, and consumer advocates.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Equipoise as a means of managing uncertainty: personal, communal and proxy.Journal of Medical Ethics, 1996
- Competing or Complementary?:Ethical Considerations and the Quality of Randomized TrialsInternational Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1996
- The rights of patients in researchBMJ, 1995
- How can health service users contribute to the NHS research and development programme?BMJ, 1995
- What do I want from health research and researchers when I am a patient?BMJ, 1995
- Empowering Communities: Action Research through Healthy CitiesHealth Education Quarterly, 1994
- The Polio Survivor as Expert: Implications for Rehabilitation Nursing ResearchRehabilitation Nursing Journal, 1994
- Patients' Preferences and General Practitioners' Decisions in the Treatment of Menstrual DisordersFamily Practice, 1994
- The Politics of Breast CancerScience, 1993
- The Perinatal Research Agenda: Whose Priorities?Birth, 1991