Improving patient engagement in research is not enough to answer the question of what is important for an individual patient in the clinical encounter: A commentary on Turcotte et al. (2023) call for a change in the approach to 'patient-oriented' research

Mathew Mercuri^{1

2

3}, Amiram Gafni⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Comment

Mathew Mercuri et al. J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Aug.

. 2023 Aug;29(5):741-743.

doi: 10.1111/jep.13838. Epub 2023 Mar 5.

Mathew Mercuri^{1

2

3}, Amiram Gafni⁴

¹ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

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The shiny new object: Deconstructing the patient-oriented paradigm in health sciences.
Turcotte PL, Holmes D, Murray SJ. Turcotte PL, et al. J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Aug;29(5):700-708. doi: 10.1111/jep.13823. Epub 2023 Mar 7. J Eval Clin Pract. 2023. PMID: 36880981

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