@article{discovery1424038,
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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}
}