Involving consumers in designing, conducting, and interpreting randomised controlled trials: questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the extent to which consumers are involved in the work of clinical trial coordinating centres in the United Kingdom and the nature of consumers' involvement in randomised trials coordinated by these centres.

Design

National surveys using structured questionnaires with some open ended sections.

Setting

103 clinical trial coordinating centres in the United Kingdom identified through a database assembled in 1997 by the NHS clinical trials adviser.

Participants

Named contacts at 62 coordinating centres and investigators in 60 trials that were identified as involving consumers.

Main outcome measures

Number of coordinating centres and number of trials in which consumers were involved and the nature of consumers' involvement.

Results

SUBMITTER: Hanley B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC26555 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature