Seeking What Matters Patients as Research Partners

In their excellent and timely article ‘Patient and public involvement in patient-reported out-come measures: evolution not revolution,’[1] Sophie Staniszewska and colleagues make important points about the contribution of patients to the development of patient-reported outcomemeasures (PROMs), seeing ‘‘patients as research partners in the research process, not just as those individuals who are consulted or as subjects, fromwhom data are sourced, to ensure the acceptability, relevance, and quality of research.’’ As an advocate accustomed to collaborative relationships with researchers, this seems self-evident. And if any area of research design lends itself to patient involvement, it is certainly PROMs