"This article, authored by patient partners, provides guidance on patient compensation for people involved in research or quality improvement within healthcare, who engage patients as partners. The article defines core principles behind compensation, and the patient partners outline how these principles can be put into practice in a valid way while valuing the contributions of the patient partners to the health research or quality improvement project. This article is grounded in the experience of four patients who have extensive experience in patient and public involvement. Richards, Dawn P.; Jordan, Isabel; Strain, Kimberly; and Press, Zal (2018) ""Patient partner compensation in research and health care: the patient perspective on why and how,"" Patient Experience Journal: Vol. 5 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. Available at: https://pxjournal.org/journal/vol5/iss3/2"