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Improving Surgical Research by Involving Stakeholders
Author(s) -
Peter C. Minneci,
Kristine M. Nacion,
Daniel L. Lodwick,
Jennifer N. Cooper,
Katherine J. Deans
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.4898
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , surgical procedures , general surgery , medical emergency , surgery , law , political science
Improving Surgical Research by Involving Stakeholders Enrolling patients in prospective surgical trials is difficult, especially in the urgent and/or emergent care setting. However, there is growing support for including patients, caregivers, and other health care stakeholders in all phases of research to assist with identifying and incorporating outcomes important to the public, developing strategies to improve enrollment and retention rates, and accelerating the dissemination and implementation of results.1-5 We report the effect of stakeholder involvement in an ongoing randomized clinical trial (RCT) (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02110485) of pediatric appendicitis.

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