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Patient Involvement in Healthcare-Associated Infection Research: A Lexical Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2018

Ann Dadich  and
Mary Wyer
Ann Dadich*
Affiliation:
School of Business, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Mary Wyer
Affiliation:
Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
*
Address correspondence to Ann Dadich, PhD, School of Business, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW, Australia 2751 (A.Dadich@westernsydney.edu.au).
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE

This review examines patient involvement in healthcare-associated infection (HAI) research. Healthcare-associated infections represent an intractable issue with considerable implications for patients and staff. Participatory methodologies that involve patients in healthcare research are associated with myriad benefits.

DESIGN

Lexical review.

METHODS

PubMed was searched to identify all publications on patient involvement in HAI research since 2000; publications were also identified from the cited references. A lexical analysis was conducted of the methods sections of 148 publications.

RESULTS

The findings reveal that HAI research that actively involves patients and members of the public is limited.

CONCLUSIONS

Patient involvement is largely limited to recruitment to HAI studies rather than extended to patient involvement in research design, implementation, analysis, and/or dissemination. As such, there is considerable opportunity to further this important research area via alternative methodologies that award primacy to patient expertise and agency.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:710–717

Type
Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , June 2018 , pp. 710 - 717
Copyright
© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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