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ReviewHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2017

The Benefits of Patient Involvement for Translational Research.

Lieke van der Scheer, Elisa Garcia, Anna Laura van der Laan, Simone van der Burg, Marianne Boenink

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Review in Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement in Clinical Trials: A Multi-Perspective Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the ROWTATE Programme.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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  7. When Did the Term "Translational Research" Emerge-and Why?Journal of Korean medical science · 2026
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  10. Evaluating the Involvement of People With Cancer and Informal Caregivers in the Development Process of a New Set of Quality of Life Questionnaires.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  11. Investigating item response theory model performance in the context of evaluating clinical outcome assessments in clinical trials.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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  17. Research Buddy partnership in a MD-PhD program: lessons learned.Research involvement and engagement · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lieke van der ScheerDepartment of Philosophy, Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Lieke.vanderScheer@utwente.nl.
Elisa GarciaRadboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Anna Laura van der LaanDepartment of Philosophy, Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Simone van der BurgRadboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Marianne BoeninkDepartment of Philosophy, Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The question we raise in this paper is, whether patient involvement might be a beneficial way to help determine and achieve the aims of translational (TR) research and, if so, how to proceed. TR is said to ensure a more effective movement ('translation') of basic scientific findings to relevant and useful clinical applications. In view of the fact that patients are supposed to be the primary beneficiaries of such translation and also have relevant knowledge based on their experience, listening to their voice early on in the innovation process might very well increase the effectiveness of the translation. After explaining how the concept of TR emerged and what it entails, this paper shows through a literature review which arguments have been put forward to promote patient involvement in health care research in a more general sense. We examine whether, and if so how, these arguments are relevant for the discourse on TR and we identify pitfalls and dilemmas. Ultimately, we conclude that it may be worthwhile to experiment with patient involvement in TR but that the design of such involvement requires careful consideration.

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Patient ParticipationTranslational Research, BiomedicalHealth Services ResearchHumansPatient experiential knowledgePatient involvementPatient involvement in researchPatient participationPatient participation in scienceTranslational research

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