Citizen and stakeholder led priority setting for long-term care research: identifying research priorities within the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program is a longitudinal partnered program of research in Western Canada that aims to improve the quality of care and quality of life for residents and quality of worklife for staff in long-term care settings. This program of research includes researchers, citizens (persons living with dementia and caregivers of persons living in long-term care), and stakeholders (representatives from provincial and regional health authorities, owner-operators of long-term care homes). The aim of this paper is to describe how we used priority setting methods with citizens and stakeholders to identify ten priorities for research using the TREC data.

Methods

We adapted the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership method to ensur

SUBMITTER: Chamberlain SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229578 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature