Patient partnership at BMJ

"We continue to give patients a prominent voice in the journal through our “What your patient is thinking” series6 and increasing the number of patient commentaries and opinion pieces. BMJ articles with a patient coauthor are free to access for two weeks, and patient author groups without access to funding can also apply for a waiver of BMJ’s open access fees.7 This year we have also started using a “patient author” or “public representative” affiliation for patient and public authors to help highlight, quantify, and track the patient authored content we publish. We encourage other journals to do the same."