Welcome to PEARL!
Patient Engagement and Research Link
PEARL is a platform that brings patients and health research teams together to connect and collaborate on topics they care about. PEARL makes it easier for patients and researchers to find each other and work together in patient-oriented research.
Explore PEARL to find opportunities that match your passion, share your ideas and learn more about patient-oriented research here in Saskatchewan and Canada!
Research Projects in Saskatchewan
When the right combination of patients, researchers, healthcare practitioners and decision makers work together on research teams, they often achieve better results.
Patient involvement on POR teams has been shown to:
guide research to more relevant questions
improve data collection methods and interpretation.
Healthcare practitioners and decision makers on POR teams help to:
guide the research on a practical, sustainable path
speed up the process of translating new knowledge into policy and practice.
PEARL provides patients - who are passionate about improving our healthcare systems - with an opportunity to volunteer* on research teams aiming to do just that! Researchers who wish to collaborate with patients on health research projects can post engagement opportunities on PEARL. Patients can review the opportunities and volunteer for the ones that match their interests and life experiences. PEARL brings patients and researchers together to facilitate positive change in Saskatchewan healthcare.
*Patient Partner volunteers often receive honoraria (payment as a token of appreciation for time and service provided) or other recognition for their contribution to research projects.
I am looking for opportunities to share my lived experience and improve our healthcare system.
A patient is someone who has had recent personal experience with a health issue, whether as a patient or an informal caregiver to a patient, such as a family member or friend.
Patients may be involved as Patient Partners or as participants. Patient Partners are equal research team members, while participants contribute to the study, but are not members of the team.
I am seeking patients interested in joining my patient-oriented research team.
Patient-oriented research answers questions that matter to patients and aims to improve healthcare. As members of the research team, Patient Partners work together with researchers, clinicians, policy makers and other stakeholders to research areas of healthcare that patients have identified as important and needing change.
