0202606172245
STARDIT ID:
0202606172245State in progress but not completed
Start 2023-08-02
Form updated 2026-06-17
Inputs
Jennifer Petkovic (link)
ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5824-584X
Task: Corresponding author, wrote first draft, conceptualisation, project co-ordination
Peter Tugwell
Task: Joint first author, co-principal applicant on CIHR grant, co-established MuSE Consortium, conceptualisation
Vivian Welch
Task: Joint first author, co-principal applicant on CIHR grant, equity methods lead, conceptualisation
Thomas W. Concannon
Task: Co-established MuSE Consortium, conceptualisation
Olivia Magwood
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Alex Todhunter-Brown
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Elie A. Akl
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Joanne Khabsa
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Richard Morley
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Cochrane, London, UK
Holger Schunemann
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Lyubov Lytvyn
Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
Arnav Agarwal
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Alba Antequera
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Marc T. Avey
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Pauline Campbell
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Christine Chang
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Declared interests: Employed by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA
Stephanie Chang
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Leonila Dans
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Omar Dewidar
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Davina Ghersi
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Research Translation, National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia
Ian D. Graham
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Glen Hazlewood
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Jennifer Hilgart
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Cochrane Central Executive Team, London, UK
Tanya Horsley
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Denny John
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Janet Jull
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Lara J. Maxwell
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Declared interests: Managing Editor of Cochrane Musculoskeletal
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
Chris McCutcheon
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Zachary Munn (link)
ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-5842
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Declared interests: Employee of JBI
JBI, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Francesco Nonino
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Jordi Pardo Pardo
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Roses Parker
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Cochrane Pain Palliative and Supportive Care, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
Kevin Pottie
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Gabriel Rada
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Alison Riddle
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Anneliese Synnot
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Centre for Health Communication and Participation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
Elizabeth Tanjong Ghogomu
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Eve Tomlinson
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Karine Toupin-April
Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement (MuSE) Consortium
Task: Providing feedback on protocol development, suggesting interview participants, recommending literature for inclusion, completing international survey, attending consensus meeting
Method: International membership-based consortium
Communication: Quarterly newsletters, consultation rounds
More than 160 individuals from 20 countries representing the 11 collaborator and partner categories, each with an interest in engagement in health research, evidence syntheses and guidelines.
International advisory group
Task: Developing draft guidance items per collaborator and partner category, engaging with category co-leads, suggesting interview participants
Method: Formal advisory group
(link)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant. Peter Tugwell and Vivian Welch are co-principal applicants.
(link)
Previous MuSE project developing guidance for stakeholder engagement in health guideline development and implementation (Petkovic et al., Syst Rev 2020), whose lessons learned directly inform the current initiative.
Outputs and impacts
Open-access peer-reviewed research protocol (link)
Impact: Sets out the full methods for developing equity-oriented guidance on collaborator and partner engagement in evidence syntheses
Impact: Intended to improve consistency, transparency and uptake of engagement in evidence synthesis, potentially reducing health inequities
Adoption of 'collaborators and partners' in place of 'stakeholder'
Learning: The team replaced 'stakeholder' with 'collaborators and partners' in recognition of the term's problematic historical and colonial associations
The 11 categories (the '11 Ps') are: patients/consumers and carers; payers/funders of research; payers and purchasers of health services; publishers; policy-makers; principal investigators; product makers; producers and commissioners of guidelines; programme managers; care providers; and the public.