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Table 1 Patient and Public Involvement related questioning within interviews*

From: Understanding and optimising patient and public involvement in trial oversight: an ethnographic study of eight clinical trials

Questioning for trialists/funder representatives/sponsor representatives

 Views of PPI and actual impact on trial conduct decisions

 Role of PPI on the TMG/TSC

 Background of public members on the TMG/TSC

 Reasons for selecting public members to be part of the TMG/TSC

 Views on which committee (TMG/TSC) public members are best placed to contribute

Questioning for public contributors

 Experience in trial oversight committees

 Their understanding of their role in the committee

 Examples of how they perceived they had influenced trial conduct

 How they felt during oversight meetings

  1. PPI patient and public involvement, TMG trial management group, TSC trial steering committee
  2. *Extracted from interview topic guides