Ethical Guidelines for Engaging with Patients as Partners in Health Research

This document is part of a series of guides, which offer opportunities to reflect on aspects of patient engagement in health research. Other documents in the series will cover forming a patient advisory group, budgeting for patient engagement, community engagement approaches, and more. In this document, we will cover some definitions helpful to understand ethics, and provide a series of ethical considerations for reflection to get you thinking about how to be ethically engaged in health research.