Objectives – Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

The vision of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research is to demonstrably improve health outcomes and enhance patients' health care experience through integration of evidence at all levels in the health care system.

The goals to achieve this vision are to:

• create a collaborative, pan-Canadian process for identifying, establishing and addressing patient-oriented research priorities;
• establish an integrated, leading-edge pan-Canadian clinical research infrastructure along the full continuum of patient-oriented research;
• grow Canada's capacity to attract, train and mentor health-care professionals and health researchers, as well as to create sustainable career paths in patient-oriented research;
• strengthen organizational, regulatory and financial support for clinical studies in Canada and enhance patient and clinician engagement in these studies; and
• improve processes for the early identification of best practices, expedite their development and harmonization into guidelines for patient care and support their adoption by clinicians, care-givers and patients.