The Research Centre for Patient Involvement (ResCenPI) provides a forum for people from different organisations to collaborate on patient involvement intervention research, training and implementation.

ResCenPI welcomes people from all health-related stakeholder groups to contribute to our vision of providing and disseminating evidence-based practices that enable people to be involved effectively in healthcare relevant to their everyday lives.

ResCenPI is led by Professor Hilary Bekker and Associate Professor Lotte Ørneborg Rodkjær, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Vision

The centre provides evidence enabling patients, relatives and health professionals to be involved effectively in healthcare relevant to people's everyday lives. It provides guidance to foster innovation and change in involvement practices in healthcare.

Mission

This international research and knowledge centre:

• Critically evaluates shared decision making and self-management support interventions and research to inform pragmatic, evidence-based models that enhance patient involvement in everyday healthcare.
• Investigates the adoption by health professionals of practices known to enhance the involvement of patients and relatives along health and illness pathways.
• Assesses the impact of patient involvement interventions on patient and relative experience, clinical health indicators, professional practices and organisational readiness for increased patient involvement.

Research Focus

Our members apply interdisciplinary research design and methods to examine:

• Patients’, relatives’ and health professionals’ experiences of and reasoning about patient involvement methods and interventions in healthcare.
• The context, development, feasibility, outcomes and implementation factors relating to the integration of patient involvement interventions into health and illness pathways.
• Methods for involving patients optimally in the research process and exploring consequences in relation to the patient, relative, health professional, researcher and study.

Values

Based on collaboration, methodology, knowledge dissemination and sustainability, the centre aims to:

• Work in collaboration with patients, relatives, health professionals, health scientists and other stakeholders to design research that innovates and evaluates patient involvement interventions in healthcare.
• Employ high-quality and innovative methods to guide the design of patient involvement interventions and evaluate their impact on patient and health professional experiences, health outcome indicators, service delivery and people’s everyday lives.
• Share evidence and disseminate knowledge in meaningful ways for patients, relatives, health professionals, researchers and other stakeholders.
• Develop patient involvement interventions that benefit patients, relatives and health professionals and are adopted within healthcare.