Collaboration and co-ownership in research: dynamics and dialogues between patient research partners and professional researchers in a research team.

Background:   Different strategies by which patients can be involved in research include consultation, control and collaboration. This article focuses on collaboration within research teams and considers this with reference to a research project about setting a social-scientific agenda for health research from the perspectives of patients with a chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Objective:   To examine the dynamics and dialogues in a collaboration between patient research partners and professional researchers.