Patient Research Partners

We are patient research partners on behalf of patients´organization: Deutsche Rheuma-Liga, Dutch Arthritis Society and Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement in Musculoskeletal Research (PIMS). 

As patient research partners, we participate as interested and committed patients in all phases of SPIDeRR. We are trained on topics such as research directions, methods and questions, types of studies, the process of research projects and ways of obtaining scientific information. 

Our expertise is that of the patient with lived knowledge by own experience (lived experience) and from this perspective we provide additional insights into research.