What Healthcare Providers Need to Know



For Healthcare Providers

Healthcare providers are key participants in health research and play an important role in ensuring that patients are meaningfully engaged in the process. Patient-Oriented Research (POR) is designed to produce the best evidence to support the highest quality care for patients as well as ensuring an effective, efficient and equitable health system in Ontario. POR also affords healthcare providers with an opportunity to get closer to, or become directly involved with, health research.

The following resources will:

  • provide examples of best practices in patient engagement in health research;
  • challenges and opportunities presented in POR; and,
  • setting research priorities with patients and other stakeholders.

Patient engagement in health research – resources and tools

This document provides a variety of resources and tools to help conduct POR.

Poster: Pregnancy & parenting with arthritis: bridging the information gap

This poster, developed and presented by patients during a recent international conference, demonstrates how patients can contribute to the health research enterprise.

Challenges to patient engagement that clinicians need to consider

This presentation leads clinicians in a discussion of the challenges present in meaningful patient engagement.

How can patients be engaged in research?

This presentation addresses some of the perceptions patients have about being involved in health research and some examples of how patients have been effectively engaged.

Moving from research participant to research collaborator

The presentation discusses several approaches to engaging patients in research agenda setting.

How can we come to consensus on research priorities?

This presentation leads clinicians in a discussion on research priority setting approaches.

What is shared decision making and how do we do it?

This presentation discusses the effectiveness of shared decision making and the use of patient decision aids.

Where can we find the evidence to aid clinical practice?

This presentation discusses some of the sources of information to aid clinical practice.