Birch, Rebecca
Simons, Gwenda
Wähämaa, Heidi
McGrath, Catherine M.
Johansson, Eva C.
Skingle, Diana
Bayliss, Kerin
Starling, Bella
Gerlag, Danielle M.
Buckley, Christopher D.
Stack, Rebecca J.
Raza, Karim
Falahee, Marie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5928-486X
Funding for this research was provided by:
FP7 Health (FP7-HEALTH-F2–2012–305549)
NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC-1215-20009)
Versus Arthritis (20298)
Article History
Received: 10 October 2019
Accepted: 7 January 2020
First Online: 19 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This paper reports the development and evaluation of a patient advisory group. Patient research partners acted as specialist advisors, and were involved in the planning and conduct of this research and in the development of this manuscript as authors. All participants in the EuroTEAM project were provided with information about the purpose of this evaluation exercise, and both patient partners and researchers contributed to the development of the survey reported here. Completion and return of the survey was voluntary for both EuroTEAM researchers and patient research partners. Formal ethical approval is therefore not needed for research of this kind, in line with National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) INVOLVE policy.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.