Patient safety research has to date offered few opportunities for patients and families to be actively involved in the research process. This article describes our collaboration with patients and families in two separate studies, involving end-of-life care and infection control in acute care. We used the collaborative methodology of video-reflexive ethnography, which has been primarily used with clinicians, to involve patients and families as active participants and collaborators in our research. The purpose of this article is to share our experiences and findings that iterative researcher reflexivity in the field was critical to the progress and success of each study. We present and analyze the complexities of reflexivity-in-the-field through a framework of multilayered reflexivity. We share our lessons here for other researchers seeking to actively involve patients and families in patient safety research using collaborative visual methods.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	end-of-life issues, health care, illness, disease, infectious, palliative care, research, collaborative, visual methods, qualitativ,e video-reflexive ethnography, Australia
Research Division:	Health Sciences
Research Group:	Health services and systems
Research Field:	Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
UTAS Author:	Wyer, M (Ms Mary Wyer)
ID Code:	106266
Year Published:	2015
Web of Science® Times Cited:	25
Deposited By:	Health Sciences
Deposited On:	2016-02-03
Last Modified:	2016-09-21
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