Table 1 Research Involvement and Engagement’s position on patient peer review
From: Developing the infrastructure for patient review in academic journals
• Academic and the patient peer review provide different, but complementary evaluations, and we recognise the intrinsic contribution each makes to the assessment of a manuscript. • We believe incorporating both academic and patient review enhances the diversity of review and offers authors a broader evaluation of their work, through a wider assessment of relevance, acceptability, appropriateness and robustness, arguably a form of ‘community validity’. • We are dedicated to treating patient reviewers as equal partners in the peer review process recognising their unique contribution. For RIE this is the essence of our mission and already embedded in the way we work. |