Patients can play a powerful role in research as advisors. Living with a disease or health condition every day gives you valuable insight into what it’s like to manage symptoms, take treatments, and make healthcare decisions. Engaging in research as a patient in an advisory role not only enhances personal health education but also serves as a powerful avenue for advocacy that drives innovation and improves outcomes for future patients.

The Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures has developed evidence-based toolkits to facilitate patient engagement in research. The toolkits feature a case study on Chronic Limb-threatening Ischemia (CLTI) and how patient partners can be engaged in research to improve outcomes for all.

Check out these toolkits to learn about strategies and lessons learned in engagement of patient partners. One toolkit is aimed at patient partners, to provide valuable information on what research engagement looks like. One toolkit is aimed at researchers and other stakeholders, to help them in planning and implementing patient engagement in their research.

This module will provide you with an overview of research as it relates to medical discovery and patient outcomes. Later in the module, we’ll discuss how patients and caregivers can engage in research to improve the process and findings.

The BEST-CLI Study is an eight-year study that tested two types of treatment. The study focused on patients with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia, also known as CLTI. In this module, learn more about the study and its results.