Cochrane author ’s work acknowledged in NIHR co-production publication

Cochrane author, and joint Co-ordinating editor, Alex Pollock, of Glasgow Caledonian University has seen her ground-breaking work in co-producing a Cochrane review included in a new UK ’s National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) INVOLVE publication.Alex involved stroke survivors, carers, physiotherapists and educators in an update of a Cochrane systematic review relating to physiotherapy after stroke. Her innovative work was included inCo-production in Action Number Two, as an example of good practice in Co-production, published in November 2019 by INVOLVE. You can hear Alex talk about her work in a webinar recorded ahead of the Cochrane Virtual Colloquiumhere.Alex Pollock said “Our team was delighted that NIHR INVOLVE chose to include our example of involving people in our Cochrane review as part of their co-production collection.  I think that this highlights the fact that involving people in systematic reviews is now viewed as being as important as involving people i n other areas of research, such as research prioritisation or primary research studies.   Although we don’t yet know the “best” way to involve people in reviews, our work on the ACTIVE project shows that there are some great examples of different ways of successfully involving people in revi ews, including examples - like ours - where people have had real and meaningful control over key decisions relating to a review”.Gary Hickey, of NIHR INVOLVE said ” It’s great to see co-production ga...
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