TY - JOUR VL - 13 JF - Trials N1 - © 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 TI - Involvement of consumers in studies run by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit: results of a survey UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-9 Y1 - 2012/01/12/ ID - discovery1424038 AV - public KW - Biomedical Research KW - Community-Institutional Relations KW - Consumer Participation KW - Cooperative Behavior KW - Great Britain KW - Guidelines as Topic KW - Humans KW - Meta-Analysis as Topic KW - Perception KW - Questionnaires KW - Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic KW - Research Design N2 - 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. SN - 1745-6215 A1 - Vale, CL A1 - Thompson, LC A1 - Murphy, C A1 - Forcat, S A1 - Hanley, B ER -