A protocol for stakeholder engagement in head and neck cancer pragmatic trials.

Cameron Macdonald, Margaret Fitch, Katherine A Hutcheson, Timothy M McCulloch, Rosemary Martino

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Article in BMC cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Cameron MacdonaldQualitative Health Research Consultants, Madison, WI, United States of America.

Margaret FitchBloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Katherine A HutchesonDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America. karnold@mdanderson.org.

Timothy M McCullochOtolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America.

Rosemary MartinoDepartment of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Rosemary.martino@utoronto.ca.

Funding

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute PCS-1609-36195

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Meaningful engagement with stakeholders in research demands intentional approaches. This paper describes the development of a framework to guide stakeholder engagement as research partners in a pragmatic trial proposed to evaluate behavioral interventions for dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients. We highlight the core principles of stakeholder engagement including representation of all perspectives, meaningful participation, respectful partnership with stakeholders, and accountability to stakeholders; and describe how these principles were operationalized to engage relevant stakeholders throughout the course of a large clinical trial.

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Head and Neck NeoplasmsStakeholder ParticipationDeglutition DisordersHumansPatient ParticipationPragmatic Clinical Trials as TopicResearch DesignDeglutition disordersHead and neck neoplasmsPatient participationPragmatic clinical trialSpeech-language pathologyStakeholder participation

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PMID39237888

DOI10.1186/s12885-024-12733-5

PMCPMC11378588

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