%0 Journal Article %@ 1745-6215 %A Vale, CL %A Thompson, LC %A Murphy, C %A Forcat, S %A Hanley, B %D 2012 %F discovery:1424038 %J Trials %K 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 %P - %T Involvement of consumers in studies run by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit: results of a survey %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1424038/ %V 13 %X 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. %Z © 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