1. What types of stakeholders were engaged? 2. What were the a priori target number(s) for each type of stakeholder? Were targets met? 3. How was balance of stakeholder perspectives considered and achieved? 4. What methods were used to identify, recruit and enroll stakeholders in research activities? 5. Did engagement occur:  a. before research began, during priority setting, topic development, question development, and research design;  b. during research activities, including enrollment of patients, conduct of data collection, analysis, and interpretation of findings; and  c. after research was concluded, including dissemination and implementation of findings, and evaluation of the research itself? 6. What were the intensity, methods and modes of engagement?

7. What, if any, was the impact of stakeholder engagement on:  a. the relevance of research questions;  b. the transparency of the research process; and  c. the adoption of research evidence into practice settings?

This figure presents a list of questions that may be used by researchers to guide future reporting on stakeholder-engaged research. These questions were co-developed with a stakeholder panel