Hospitals conduct scientific research to learn more about diseases and treatments. Researchers benefit greatly from experts by experience. Someone is an expert by experience if he or she is a patient or the next of kin of a patient. Experts by experience can help researchers by participating in research. We call this patient participation.

When researchers are asked by experience experts to think along, it is not always clear to them in what way this can be done. That's why researchers can use this Divi. Because the Divi "Patient Participation" lists several examples of how experts by experience can contribute. After reviewing the Divi, it is clearer to patients how and at what points in the research their input is welcome. This makes the tricky concept of 'patient participation' a lot more concrete!