Caught between blindness

and a heart attack?

Or how research reporting can keep

an informed patient awake at night

How can patients add value?

Engage physicians, patients from the onset

What we seek to answer with the study

What we want to ask

Discuss results, how to report them

Proactive knowledge transfer

Standard procedure

Built into calls for proposals, funding

How can academics add value?

Improve quality of conduct (e.g. questionnaires)

Address communication implications from the get-go.Study limitations

Causality, associations

Interpretation (expert vs. expert, lay vs. expert)

Contradictory evidence

Assess results in the context of existing knowledge.

Reporting does not end with publication

Mediations: key target

Take into account all reporting mediations

Health professionals

Public health communicators

Patient groups, fora, bloggers

Social media

Engage in constructive dialogue

REPORTING

Patients

Interested

lay audiences

Health professionals

Peer reviewers

Editors

Journalists, portals,

bloggers

Context: patient-centred?

Patient centred vs. health

system/provider/researcher centred

Patient input built into research

Read user comments on news articles, blogs,

online fora

Educate the user? Educate the researcher?

Learn to live with user needs, logic, and use of

evidence