The Role of Hospital Inpatients in Supporting Medication Safety: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Inpatient medication errors are a significant concern. An approach not yet widely studied is to facilitate greater involvement of inpatients with their medication. At the same time, electronic prescribing is becoming increasingly prevalent in the hospital setting.

Patient and public involvement in data collection for health services research: a descriptive study.

Plain English Summary: There is a consensus that patients and the public should be involved in research in a meaningful way. To date, lay people have been mostly involved in developing research ideas and commenting on patient information but not as much in actual data collection. We have had firsthand experience with lay people helping to conduct a study on how patients in hospital are involved with their medicines.