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Patient and public involvement in reducing health and care research waste

Overview of attention for article published in Research Involvement and Engagement, February 2018
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Title
Patient and public involvement in reducing health and care research waste
Published in
Research Involvement and Engagement, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40900-018-0087-1
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Virginia Minogue, Mary Cooke, Anne-Laure Donskoy, Penny Vicary, Bill Wells

Abstract

As much as 85 % of health research is believed to be wasted because it is not published or reported, the design is poor or does not consider what is already known in the topic area. Although a great deal of work has been done in the UK to reduce research waste, the role of patients and the public has not been discussed.This paper describes a survey, on the role of patients in reducing research waste, which was carried out as part of a larger piece of work on reducing waste in healthcare. The study found that patients were interested in reducing research waste. The key roles they play in research, for example being co-applicants for funding, members of project teams, co-researchers, means they have some shared responsibility for making sure the quality of research is high. This includes finding out what is already known about a topic and getting the study design right before seeking funding, publishing and reporting the results when the study is finished. Recognising where waste happens is part of good management of a research study. Background Eighty five per cent of health research expenditure is potentially wasted due to failure to publish research, unclear reporting of research that is published, and the failure of new research studies to systematically review previous research in the same topic area, poor study design and conduct. A great deal of progress has been made to address this issue but the role of patients and the public has not been considered.MainA small survey was undertaken, as part of a larger programme of work on reducing health and care waste, to understand the role of patients in reducing research waste. The study showed that patients are interested in this issue particularly in relation to the prioritisation of research and patient and public involvement.ConclusionsPatients undertake key roles in the research process including co-applicancy, project management, or as co-researchers. This brings responsibility for ensuring high quality research and value for money. Responsibility for recognition of the potential for wasteful practices is part of the conduct and operation of research studies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Researcher 11 13%
Other 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 16 19%
Unknown 20 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 17 20%
Social Sciences 13 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 11%
Psychology 6 7%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 22 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2023.
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#647,222
of 25,398,331 outputs
Outputs from Research Involvement and Engagement
#27
of 512 outputs
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#15,988
of 454,467 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Involvement and Engagement
#2
of 10 outputs
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