Does Consumer Refereeing Improve the Quality of Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions?
The Perspectives of Editors and Authors Gill Gyte,1 Carol Grant-Pearce,2 Sonja Henderson,1 Dell Horey,3 Sandy Oliver,4 and Carol Sakala5 Objective To determine how editors and review authors view consumer refereeing within the editorial process for preparing systematic reviews of effects of health care interventions; in particular, their assessment of the impact of consumer involvement on the quality of Cochrane reviews, and lessons for consumer involvement in health care research more generally. This information was sought to help plan a more extensive evaluation. Design An independent researcher undertook semi-structured telephone interviews with editors, review authors, consumers, consumer coordinators, and the coordinator of a Cochrane review group. The researcher examined routine editorial documentation and undertook mapping interviews to understand aims of involving consumers in research and the Cochrane Collaboration’s rationale for involving consumers as referees. A short quest
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