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ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2022

Participatory codesign of patient involvement in a Learning Health System: How can data-driven care be patient-driven care?

Sarah E Knowles, Dawn Allen, Ailsa Donnelly, Jackie Flynn, Kay Gallacher, Annmarie Lewis, Grace McCorkle, Manoj Mistry, Pat Walkington, Lisa Brunton

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Article in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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10 authors.

Sarah E KnowlesCentre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0863-5866
Dawn AllenNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Ailsa DonnellyNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Jackie FlynnNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Kay GallacherNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Annmarie LewisNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Grace McCorkleNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Manoj MistryNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Pat WalkingtonNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Lisa BruntonCentre for Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Funding

Department of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA Learning Health System (LHS) is a model of how routinely collected health data can be used to improve care, creating 'virtuous cycles' between data and improvement. This requires the active involvement of health service stakeholders, including patients themselves. However, to date, research has explored the acceptability of being 'data donors' rather than considering patients as active contributors. The study aimed to understand how patients should be actively involved in an LHS.

designTen participatory codesign workshops were conducted with eight experienced public contributors using visual, collective and iterative methods. This led contributors to challenge and revise not only the idea of an LHS but also revise the study aims and outputs.

resultsThe contributors proposed three exemplar roles for patients in patient-driven LHS, which aligned with the idea of three forms of transparency: informational, participatory and accountability. 'Epistemic injustice' was considered a useful concept to express the risks of an LHS that did not provide active roles to patients (testimonial injustice) and that neglected their experience through collecting data that did not reflect the complexity of their lives (hermeneutic injustice). DISCUSSION: Patient involvement in an LHS should be 'with and by' patients, not 'about or for'. This requires systems to actively work with and respond to patient feedback, as demonstrated within the study itself by the adaptive approach to responding to contributor questions, to work in partnership with patients to create a 'virtuous alliance' to achieve change. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: Public contributors were active partners throughout, and co-authored the paper.

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Learning Health SystemHealth ServicesHumansPatient Participationcodesigncoproductionhealth datapatient involvement

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PMID34668634
PMCPMC8849220

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