TY - JOUR
T1 - "be an ambassador for change that you would like to see"
T2 - A call to action to all stakeholders for co-creation in healthcare and medical research to improve quality of life of people with a neuromuscular disease
AU - Ambrosini, Anna
AU - Quinlivan, Ros
AU - Sansone, Valeria A.
AU - Meijer, Ingeborg
AU - Schrijvers, Guus
AU - Tibben, Aad
AU - Padberg, George
AU - De Wit, Maarten
AU - Sterrenburg, Ellen
AU - Mejat, Alexandre
AU - Breukel, Alexandra
AU - Rataj, Michal
AU - Lochmüller, Hanns
AU - Willmann, Raffaella
AU - Athanasiou, Dimitrios
AU - Bere, Nathalie
AU - Bertinotti, Fabiola
AU - Buccella, Filippo
AU - Bungay, Nic
AU - Daly, Caroline
AU - De Lemus, Mencía
AU - Galluccio, Ettore
AU - Gamroth, Carsten
AU - Goemans, Nathalie
AU - Gömöri, Gábor
AU - Hansson, Mats
AU - Lamy, François
AU - Landfeldt, Erik
AU - Lennox, Anne
AU - Mansbach, Hank
AU - Mazzone, Elena
AU - Mels, Anneke
AU - Monaco, Lucia
AU - Peay, Holly
AU - Rahbek, Jes
AU - Rasconi, Marco
AU - Salama, Françoise
AU - Schara, Ulrike
AU - Trant, Kimberly
AU - Van Engelen, Baziel
AU - Von Moers, Arpad
AU - Vroom, Elizabeth
AU - Zittersteijn, Annelies
AU - 235th ENMC workshop study group
PY - 2019/6/7
Y1 - 2019/6/7
N2 - Background: Patient and public involvement for co-creation is increasingly recognized as a valuable strategy to develop healthcare research targeting patients' real needs. However, its practical implementation is not as advanced and unanimously accepted as it could be, due to cultural differences and complexities of managing healthcare programs and clinical studies, especially in the rare disease field. Main body: The European Neuromuscular Centre, a European foundation of patient organizations, involved its key stakeholders in a special workshop to investigate the position of the neuromuscular patient community with respect to healthcare and medical research to identify and address gaps and bottlenecks. The workshop took place in Milan (Italy) on January 19-20, 2018, involving 45 participants who were mainly representatives of the patient community, but also included experts from clinical centers, industry and regulatory bodies. In order to provide practical examples and constructive suggestions, specific topics were identified upfront. The first set of issues concerned the quality of life at specific phases of a patient's life, such as at the time of diagnosis or during pediatric to adult transition, and patient involvement in medical research on activities in daily living including patient reported outcome measures. The second set of issues concerned the involvement of patients in the management of clinical research tools, such as registries and biobanks, and their participation in study design or marketing authorization processes. Introductory presentations were followed by parallel working group sessions, to gain constructive contributions from all participants. The concept of shared decision making was used to ensure, in discussions, a partnership-based identification of the wishes and needs of all stakeholders involved, and the "ladder of participation" tool served as a model to evaluate the actual and the desired level of patients' involvement in all topics addressed. A general consensus on the outcome of the meeting was collected during the final plenary session. This paper reports the outcome of the workshop and the specific suggestions derived from the analysis of the first set of topics, related to quality of life. The outcomes of the second set of topics are reported elsewhere and are only briefly summarized herein for the sake of completeness. Conclusions: The neuromuscular community proved to be very active and engaged at different levels in the healthcare initiatives of interest. The workshop participants critically discussed several topics, providing practical examples where different stakeholders could play a role in making a change and bridging gaps. Overall, they indicated the need for education of all stakeholders for better communication, where everyone should become an ambassador to promote real change. Support should also come from institutions and healthcare bodies both at structural and economic level.
AB - Background: Patient and public involvement for co-creation is increasingly recognized as a valuable strategy to develop healthcare research targeting patients' real needs. However, its practical implementation is not as advanced and unanimously accepted as it could be, due to cultural differences and complexities of managing healthcare programs and clinical studies, especially in the rare disease field. Main body: The European Neuromuscular Centre, a European foundation of patient organizations, involved its key stakeholders in a special workshop to investigate the position of the neuromuscular patient community with respect to healthcare and medical research to identify and address gaps and bottlenecks. The workshop took place in Milan (Italy) on January 19-20, 2018, involving 45 participants who were mainly representatives of the patient community, but also included experts from clinical centers, industry and regulatory bodies. In order to provide practical examples and constructive suggestions, specific topics were identified upfront. The first set of issues concerned the quality of life at specific phases of a patient's life, such as at the time of diagnosis or during pediatric to adult transition, and patient involvement in medical research on activities in daily living including patient reported outcome measures. The second set of issues concerned the involvement of patients in the management of clinical research tools, such as registries and biobanks, and their participation in study design or marketing authorization processes. Introductory presentations were followed by parallel working group sessions, to gain constructive contributions from all participants. The concept of shared decision making was used to ensure, in discussions, a partnership-based identification of the wishes and needs of all stakeholders involved, and the "ladder of participation" tool served as a model to evaluate the actual and the desired level of patients' involvement in all topics addressed. A general consensus on the outcome of the meeting was collected during the final plenary session. This paper reports the outcome of the workshop and the specific suggestions derived from the analysis of the first set of topics, related to quality of life. The outcomes of the second set of topics are reported elsewhere and are only briefly summarized herein for the sake of completeness. Conclusions: The neuromuscular community proved to be very active and engaged at different levels in the healthcare initiatives of interest. The workshop participants critically discussed several topics, providing practical examples where different stakeholders could play a role in making a change and bridging gaps. Overall, they indicated the need for education of all stakeholders for better communication, where everyone should become an ambassador to promote real change. Support should also come from institutions and healthcare bodies both at structural and economic level.
KW - Co-creation
KW - Healthcare
KW - Neuromuscular diseases
KW - Patient engagement
KW - Patient involvement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067059181&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s13023-019-1103-8
DO - 10.1186/s13023-019-1103-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 31174585
AN - SCOPUS:85067059181
VL - 14
JO - Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
JF - Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
SN - 1750-1172
IS - 1
M1 - 126
ER -