The Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery (CAHRD) is a global network which actively promotes and sustains multi-disciplinary engagement in the co-production and utilization of new knowledge.
However, REA is primarily conducted by a REA team (a multi disciplinary team of researchers) and employs rapid ethnographic research methods, while community engagement will more commonly seek to involve community members and to engage over a longer period than suggested for REA.
We ask how tasks can be designed with the idea of productive disciplinary engagement in mind.
Box 1. Heuristics for Productive Disciplinary Engagement Role-Modeling by Mentors.
The dependent and complex nature of the patients on our unit has meant that daily consultant rounds, the promotion of multi-disciplinary input and active engagement in treatment and discharge planning has been the standard for many years.
Initiating ART for prevention of MTCT is complex, requires a multi-disciplinary approach and importantly patient engagement.
Protection and promotion of children's rights requires the involvement of multi-disciplinary actors.
Data collection should be done at many levels with the involvement of several multi-disciplinary agencies.
Participation was from the multi-disciplinary critical care team.
Members of the research team nominated multi-disciplinary stakeholders on the basis of their interest and expertise in patient engagement.
The findings from this study will inform the development of evaluation metrics, including processes for engagement and mapping relationships that will be applied in future multi-disciplinary implementation studies.
