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Patients as Research Partners
Actions on Diabetes
English - September 16, 2020 20:08 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Science type1diabetes diabetes patientinvolvement research type2diabetes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When research studies are designed, there is often a critical party absent from the table – patients.
More often than not, those who are expected to benefit from a new treatment or technology aren’t involved with the process or development—and that can be an enormous problem.
Dr. Holly Witteman and Patient Partner Dana Greenberg discuss the value of having patients involved in research design.