• Identification and clarification of research questions |
• Ensuring research questions meet patients’ needs |
• Improving the design, conduct and dissemination of research studies |
• Ensuring openness, transparency and public accountability |
• Results in research outcomes that may be better translatable into patient benefit |
• Improves patient information, resulting in more appropriate and accessible participant information for would-be participants (language/content) |
• Increasing public confidence in health research |
• Boosting recruitment |
• Enhancing learning from experience and good practice |
• Offering different perspectives to the other team members |
• Dissemination to wider patient and public audiences |