With greater efforts on knowledge translation (KT), Laurie believe that knowledge will be used and patients will benefit.
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I think you’ll see more – I see a world where patients are more involved and we’ll see more uptake of the research in the real world, right. Because that’s what they care about, right; they want – or at least I know I care about that, like, I want to see it used. So I don’t want your research to stay in a publication, you know. I know that’s important and I’m not saying, you know, this whole scholarly approach to things, but I want it to be used, I want the new knowledge used so that I can benefit from it. So I think – I don’t know, that’s what I’d like to see as the future, right, more efforts on KT and more, you know, actual patients involved in the leadership maybe, of research.
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