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Table 2 Consumer involvement reported according to GRIPP2-SF [58]

From: The ACCELERATE Plus (assessment and communication excellence for safe patient outcomes) Trial Protocol: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial, cost-benefit analysis, and process evaluation

Section

Description

Aim:

To collaboratively involve consumers as research partners at all trial stages

Methods:

Recruitment occurred either during the previous feasibility study or at the initial stages of trial development. Consumers will be offered appropriate compensation [59]

Results:

Consumers will contribute by:

- Ensuring trial aims, methods, intervention components and outcomes are aligned with patient and public interests

- Providing a consumer perspective and input for the intervention and its implementation

- Contributing to and reviewing trial documents, materials and resources

- Providing a consumer perspective and advocating for patients at trial Management and Steering Committee meetings

- Chairing Steering Committee meetings

- Planning and presenting at the nursing unit manager leadership one-day workshop

- Interpreting findings and developing publications

- Advising on the future upscale of the intervention

Discussion:

Consumers have been embedded as feasible, with respect to:

- Clinical and research knowledge

- Consumers’ availability