Medical research needs lay involvement.

Medical research needs lay involvement.

Why clinical research needs medical audit.

Clinical research is considered by many doctors as erudite and not an activity likely to involve them directly. Indeed, most medical practitioners are so distanced from clinical research that they do not consider entering patients into clinical trials. The reasons for this are unclear but may derive from attitudes acquired as undergraduates , when research is often perceived as unrelated to the...

Improving undergraduate medical student involvement in research

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Lay involvement in the analysis of qualitative data in health services research: a descriptive study

Plain English summary There is a consensus that patients and the public should be involved in research in a meaningful way. However, to date, lay people have been mostly involved in developing research ideas and commenting on patient information.We previously published a paper describing our experience with lay partners conducting observations in a study of how patients in hospital are involved...

Building research capacity. An exploratory model of GPs' training needs and barriers to research involvement.

AIMS To determine general practitioners' research training needs, and the barriers to involvement in research. METHOD Semi-structured interviews with 11 GPs in rural and metropolitan South Australia, analysed using a grounded theory approach. RESULTS General practitioners' perceptions about their research needs were limited by their own experience and focussed at an individual level. Overla...