Embedding patient and public involvement: Managing tacit and explicit expectations.
Fiona PolandGeorgina CharlesworthPhuong LeungLinda BirtPublished in: Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (2019)
Patient and public involvement activity can empower individual PPI volunteers and improve relevance and quality of research but it is a complex activity which is socially constructed in flexible ways with variable outcomes. It cannot be assumed to be simple or universal panacea for increasing the relevance and accessibility of research to the public.