Tailoring research to stakeholders

Community-based participatory research in Iran: its challenges and ways to control from the stakeholders view

     According to World Health Organization reports, the root of applied researches problems in developing countries are running the researches based on academic researchers ’ interests as well as decision-making in executive systems based on their managers ’ experiences. The problems will be eliminated by stakeholders ’ participation. In 2001, the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBP...

Co-creating value in research: stakeholders' perspectives.

Tailoring Mechanisms in Three Research Technologies

Tailoring is the technical and human art of modifying the functionality of technology while the technology is in use in the field. This position paper explores various styles of, and mechanisms for, tailoring in three research systems (Trillium, Rooms, and Buttons) created by the author to explore ways to enable players (end users) to achieve new behaviors from these systems appropriate to thei...

Patient-centred outcomes research: perspectives of patient stakeholders

Objective To elicit patient stakeholders' experience and perspectives about patient-centred care. Design Qualitative. Setting A large urban healthcare system. Participants Four patient stakeholders who are prostate cancer survivors. Main outcome measures Experience and perspectives of patient stakeholders regarding patient-centred care and treatment decisions. Results Our patient stak...

Stakeholders’ engagement with Ebola therapy research in resource limited settings

BACKGROUND The current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa is the largest in history. As of February 18(th) 2015, 23,258 cases of EVD have been cumulatively reported from Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America resulting in more than 9,000 deaths. It is therefore exigent to develop prevention and treatment t...