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.
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.
This international research and knowledge centre:
Our members apply interdisciplinary research design and methods to examine:
Based on collaboration, methodology, knowledge dissemination and sustainability, the centre aims to:
ResCenPI builds on the achievements of the previous "Research Programme in Patient Involvement" at Aarhus University Hospital, which was led by Kirsten Lomborg from 2012. This research programme carried out several projects that developed knowledge of the mechanisms of patient involvement and integrated research and clinical practice, mainly through PhD projects and postdoctoral positions. Since 2013, the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University has offered an interdisciplinary module called "Citizens' and Patient Involvement: Theory and method for new practice forms". Since 2017, the department has also offered the PhD course titled “Patient and Public Involvement in Health Research”. In addition, the department has run a journal club focusing on patient and public involvement since 2012.
ResCenPI held its opening symposium on Wednesday, 29 January 2020.
ResCenPI is a collaboration between Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus University and the Central Denmark Region.
The Central Denmark Region has allocated funds for the first three years, and Aarhus University Hospital provides facilities for the centre. The centre provides the framework and necessary infrastructure for research, education and dissemination of research results across different clinical practices and disciplines and contributes to research initiatives within the field of patient involvement in different patient pathways.