#A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF THE BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY PROFESSIONAL#

Minimum of 23 professional participants in interviews and focus groups Fifty patient and public representatives actively contributed to the studyĮngagement with sufficient patient and public organizations to co‐produce the studyīereaved family member recruitment rates surpassed-see below and Figure Figure1 1ĭata sharing agreement agreed with NHSBT and Welsh Government and data shared on all potential organ donor casesĭata agreement signed by all parties and anonymized data shared on all potential prospective organ donor cases and up to 3 y retrospective dataĪttendance of co‐partners at meetings and eventsĪll events over subscribed with wait list Joint presentation of findings with partners to different audiencesĪll 23 SNODs and managers engaged in bereaved family member recruitment and recruitment targets metĪll 23 SNODs and managers engaged in research process. In a recent systematic review of 26 trials, patient and public involvement modestly but significantly increased participant enrolment. 1 To date, research has mostly focussed on the impact of patient and public involvement in trials. A recent systematic review of 122 articles and books that included co‐production showed that only a handful of studies focused on the outcomes of co‐production and what co‐production actually achieved.

The evidence for the benefits of co‐production to the quality of research processes and outcomes is still scant. There is often a tacit assumption that co‐production will inevitably produce better research. 1 Co‐production does not however mean that the roles of the academic and non‐academics dissolve or switch. When co‐production is used as a research method, it means that non‐academics-those citizens not employed by a university to undertake research-are invited to collaborate equally in all aspects such as the design, recruitment and dissemination of the research. Co‐production, co‐creation, participation and involvement are some of the terms used interchangeably to describe research that includes non‐academics. This paper focuses on the impact of co‐production on research processes and outcomes.

A productive member of the black mesa research facility