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Table 2 Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals (SAFER 2) research processes involving service users

From: Involving older people in a multi-centre randomised trial of a complex intervention in pre-hospital emergency care: implementation of a collaborative model

Research stage

Research process

Involvement structure

Planning and managing research

Ensuring delivery of safe, high-quality research against agreed study objectives and timescales

Level 1

TMG, DMEC, TSC

Attending the monitoring meeting by study funder

Level 1

T&F one-off meeting

Reviewing site study progress against timescales

Level 2

SMT

Developing research database

Level 1

Data collection

Developing patient questionnaire and interview schedule

Level 1

TMG

Level 2

SMT

Reviewing and refining draft patient interview schedule

Level 1

TMG

Level 3

SURG

Reviewing and refining draft patient questionnaires

Level 3

SURG

Identifying ways to improve the completion rate of the patient consent form

Level 1

T&F Group

Level 3

SURG

Piloting patient interviews

Level 3

SURG

Reviewing and amending site data management challenges

Level 2

SMT

Developing patient thank you letters

Level 3

SURG

Analysis

Reading patient transcripts to identify themes for analysis

Level 1

T&F analysis Group

Coding data from patient transcripts

Level 1

T&F analysis Group

Inputting into interpretation and presentation of findings from patient interviews

Level 1

T&F analysis Group

Dissemination

Commenting on drafts of final report

Level 1

TMG

Contributing to papers, conference presentations and final report

Level 1

Writing Day

Contributing to this paper

All service users from Levels 1, 2, 3

  1. DMEC Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee, TMG Trial Management Group, TSC Trial Steering Committee, SURG Service User Reference Group, T&F Task and Finish, SMT Site Management Team