@article{discovery1424038, note = {{\copyright} 2012 Vale et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3398265}, volume = {13}, month = {January}, year = {2012}, title = {Involvement of consumers in studies run by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit: results of a survey}, journal = {Trials}, pages = {--}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-9}, author = {Vale, CL and Thompson, LC and Murphy, C and Forcat, S and Hanley, B}, abstract = {We aimed to establish levels of consumer involvement in randomised controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses and other studies carried out by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit across the range of research programs, predominantly in cancer and HIV.}, keywords = {Biomedical Research, Community-Institutional Relations, Consumer Participation, Cooperative Behavior, Great Britain, Guidelines as Topic, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Perception, Questionnaires, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Research Design}, issn = {1745-6215} }