Patient engagement may enhance research efficiency; increase relevance, utility, and
importance of study outcomes to patients; facilitate recruitment; and enable translation of
results to real-world settings (1). Early community-engaged research efforts suggest benefits
in cancer, diabetes, and other diseases may translate to nephrology research, particularly
given the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities that characterize kidney disease.
Recent experiences from two National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney …