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Protocol for the development of guidance for collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses Description: Involving collaborators and partners in evidence synthesis is thought to improve relevance, quality and uptake while reducing health and social inequities. Collaborators and partners include patients, carers, funders, payers of health services, publishers, policy-makers, researchers, product makers, guideline producers, programme managers, care providers and the public. Evidence syntheses inform decisions about health care services, treatments and practice, but the most effective methods for engaging different groups — and how engagement should be reported and evaluated — have not been established. This initiative sets out a protocol to develop equity-oriented guidance for conducting, evaluating and reporting collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses. The research team replaced the term 'stakeholder' with 'collaborators and partners' in recognition of the word's problematic historical and colonial associations, grouping those involved into 11 categories (the '11 Ps'): 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.
STARDIT ID: 0202606172245
Dates

State in progress but not completed
Start 2023-08-02
Form updated 2026-06-17

Location
International
Aims
synthesise qualitative and quantitative evidence on collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses, explore how such engagement can promote health equity, and develop equity-oriented guidance on the methods for conducting, evaluating and reporting engagement, including a PRISMA reporting extension
Keywords
evidence synthesis
stakeholder engagement
coproduction
systematic reviews
health equity
patient and public involvement
Category
research

Inputs

individual

Jennifer Petkovic (link)



ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5824-584X
Task: Corresponding author, wrote first draft, conceptualisation, project co-ordination
individual

Peter Tugwell



Task: Joint first author, co-principal applicant on CIHR grant, co-established MuSE Consortium, conceptualisation
individual

Vivian Welch



Task: Joint first author, co-principal applicant on CIHR grant, equity methods lead, conceptualisation
individual

Thomas W. Concannon



Task: Co-established MuSE Consortium, conceptualisation
individual

Olivia Magwood



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Alex Todhunter-Brown



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Elie A. Akl



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Joanne Khabsa



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Richard Morley



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript


Cochrane, London, UK
individual

Holger Schunemann



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript


Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
individual

Lyubov Lytvyn



Task: Conceptualisation, reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Arnav Agarwal



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Alba Antequera



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Marc T. Avey



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Pauline Campbell



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

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
individual

Stephanie Chang



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Leonila Dans



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Omar Dewidar



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

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
individual

Ian D. Graham



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Glen Hazlewood



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Jennifer Hilgart



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript


Cochrane Central Executive Team, London, UK
individual

Tanya Horsley



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Denny John



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Janet Jull



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Lara J. Maxwell



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
Declared interests: Managing Editor of Cochrane Musculoskeletal


Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
individual

Chris McCutcheon



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

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
individual

Francesco Nonino



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Jordi Pardo Pardo



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Roses Parker



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript


Cochrane Pain Palliative and Supportive Care, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
individual

Kevin Pottie



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Gabriel Rada



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Alison Riddle



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

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
individual

Elizabeth Tanjong Ghogomu



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Eve Tomlinson



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
individual

Karine Toupin-April



Task: Reviewed and approved final manuscript
group of individuals

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.
group of individuals

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
funding

(link)




Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant. Peter Tugwell and Vivian Welch are co-principal applicants.
prior work

(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

publication/report/document

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
publication/report/document
State: Prospective
Scoping review and evidence map of methods for collaborator and partner engagement in evidence synthesis
publication/report/document
State: Prospective
Systematic review of barriers and facilitators to collaborator and partner engagement in evidence synthesis
publication/report/document
State: Prospective
Systematic review of impacts of collaborator and partner engagement in evidence synthesis
publication/report/document
Start: prospective
Systematic review of conflict-of-interest considerations in collaborator and partner engagement in evidence synthesis
publication/report/document
Start: prospective
Equity-oriented guidance documents for conducting, evaluating and reporting collaborator and partner engagement in evidence syntheses, including a PRISMA reporting extension

Impact: Intended to improve consistency, transparency and uptake of engagement in evidence synthesis, potentially reducing health inequities
learning item

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.

STARDIT report information

STARDIT report authors
Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
Created initial STARDIT report

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