Protocol for a systematic review of living labs in healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare is increasingly challenged to meet the demands of user involvement and knowledge mobilisation required by the 21st-century patient-centred and knowledge-based economies. Innovations are needed to reduce problematic barriers to knowledge exchange and improve collaborative problem solving. Living labs, as open knowledge systems, have the potential to address these gaps but are underexplored in healthcare.

Methods and analysis

We will conduct the first systematic review of living labs across healthcare contexts. We will comprehensively search the following online databases from inception to 31 December 2020: Scopus, the Cochrane Library (Wiley), Medline (OVID), Embase (OVID), Web of Science, PsycINFO (OVID) and EBSCOhost databases including Academic Sear

SUBMITTER: Archibald M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7925912 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature