BMJ 2000;320:515 ( 19 February )

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Evidence produced in evidence based medicine needs to be relevant

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EDITORIt was encouraging to see all the research papers on patient involvement in healthcare decision making in the issue of the BMJ on 18 September devoted to patient partnership. Research findings in this area go some way to filling the enormous gap in evidence that has existed for too long. There are publications that offer guidance on how to involve patients and the public, but these give practical advice and do not detail the evidence of these approaches.¹

This emergence of evidence is particularly timely given that the importance of patient and public involvement has been emphasised throughout government policies. Evidence relevant to patient/public involvement in clinical governance, health improvement plans, the development of primary care groups, and more recently the public health white paper Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation is much needed.² As the momentum of research in this area is beginning to build up we would suggest . . . [Full text of this article]

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