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Creating the dream team: introducing participatory sports and exercise medicine via ‘Patient Voices’
  1. Osman Hassan Ahmed1,2,
  2. Jermain Defoe3,
  3. Liam Richard West4,
  4. Tracy Blake5
  1. 1 Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
  2. 2 The FA Centre for Disability Football Research, The Football Association, Staffordshire, UK
  3. 3 AFC Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK
  4. 4 Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  5. 5 Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Osman Hassan Ahmed, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, BH1 3LT, UK; osman.hassan.ahmed{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099601

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    There is an accelerating movement calling for decision-making processes that centre the patient as the key driver of their own healthcare process. This concept of ‘Participatory Medicine’ is a world far removed from conventional, patriarchal or top-down healthcare approaches where the clinician ‘expert’ drove all decision-making processes, and the patient was merely a passive passenger along the journey. Organisations such as the Society for Participatory Medicine1 have empowered patients and helped change the archaic healthcare dynamic. Active patient engagement and participation is also growing steadily in research.

    Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a pathway to improve the quality and the translation of research; patients participate as collaborators on research grants and authors on research outputs.2 Patients have also been embedded in research conferences, including Stanford University’s ‘Medicine X’ series of conferences where the patient is placed ‘at the centre of the academic medicine’.3 By actively contributing in these ways, patients are able to help clinicians and researchers understand the problems …

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    • Contributors OHA generated the initial draft of the paper. OHA, LRW and TB revised the subsequent versions of the paper. OHA, JD, LRW and TB approved the final version of the paper.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Data sharing statement There are no additional unpublished data from this study.

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