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Research priorities in children and adults with congenital heart disease: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership

Drury, Nigel E; Herd, Clare P; Biglino, Giovanni; Brown, Katherine L; Coats, Louise; Cumper, Michael J; Guerrero, Rafael R; ... Cowan, Katherine; + view all (2022) Research priorities in children and adults with congenital heart disease: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership. Open Heart , 9 (2) , Article e002147. 10.1136/openhrt-2022-002147. Green open access

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Abstract

Objective To bring together patients, parents, charities and clinicians in a Priority Setting Partnership to establish national clinical priorities for research in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Methods The established James Lind Alliance methodology was used to identify and prioritise research on the management of congenital heart disease, focusing on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. An initial open survey was used to gather potential uncertainties which were filtered, categorised, converted into summary questions and checked against current evidence. In a second survey, respondents identified the unanswered questions most important to them. At two final workshops, patients, parents, charities and healthcare professionals agreed the top 10 lists of priorities for child/antenatal and adult congenital heart disease research. Results 524 respondents submitted 1373 individual questions, from which 313 out of scope or duplicate questions were removed. The remaining 1060 questions were distilled into summary questions and checked against existing literature, with only three questions deemed entirely answered and removed. 250 respondents completed the child/antenatal survey (56 uncertainties) and 252 completed the adult survey (47 uncertainties). The questions ranked the highest by clinicians and non-clinicians were taken forward to consensus workshops, where two sets of top 10 research priorities were agreed. Conclusions Through an established and equitable process, we determined national clinical priorities for congenital heart disease research. These will be taken forward by specific working groups, a national patient and public involvement group, and through the establishment of a UK and Ireland network for collaborative, multicentre clinical trials in congenital heart disease.

Type: Article
Title: Research priorities in children and adults with congenital heart disease: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2022-002147
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2022-002147
Language: English
Additional information: © Author(s) (or their employer[s]) 2022. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192604
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