Seven Actions Towards Advancing Patient Authorship and Collaboration in Peer-Reviewed Publications.

ABSTRACT: Partnerships between patients and the medical research community are strengthening. Patient involvement in research processes through collaborative workstreams provides authentic insights and perspectives, enhances trust between stakeholders and the patient community, brings balance to authorship groups and adds value and contextualisation to publications. Here, patient advocates, representatives from patient and caregiver communities and pharmaceutical and medical communications professionals propose seven actions to advance patient authorship and collaboration in peer-reviewed publications. Drawing on research, personal experience and professional insight, they call for a shift in conventional publication development practices-from seeking reasons to include patient authors to requiring

SUBMITTER: Bharadia T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12408705 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature