Table 1.

Process and impact of the patient involvement in the systematic review of factors affecting shared decision making

Aim of patient involvement	Process of patient involvement	Impact of patient involvement
Preparation for review	Exploring relevance and importance of question with RUG coordinator and feasibility of involving members in research	Potential importance of review question to patients established
	Meeting with RUG coordinator and user support worker to establish exact aims and design of member involvement	Clear aims for and design of RUG involvement established, this facilitated application for funding to support review and patient involvement
Refining the scope of the review	Workshop 1 Discussing relevance of the research question to patients	Importance of review question to patients established
	Identifying factors important to patients in sharing decisions about prescribing analgesia	Additional factors of importance identified and review protocol & data extraction forms amended to reflect these
Interpreting the review preliminary findings	Workshop 2 Critiquing the results of review	Reassurance that RUG members raised ideas around relevance of literature that were similar to the researchers'
	Feedback on how well patients' views and priorities had been integrated	Reassurance that patient priorities had been reflected in review process. Categories identified by RUG members were used as a framework for the narrative synthesis
Interpreting the review findings	Workshop 3 Agreeing of final results of review	Reassurance that patient priorities had been reflected in review process. RUG members highlighted additional factors that were poorly represented in literature
Disseminating findings and engagement	Workshop 2&3 Planning how to share results	Results were targeted at practitioners, as RUG members felt this was most important
	Agreeing dissemination of the results & discussing impact of group's involvement	RUG members and support team participated in dissemination of the review findings
	Discussing how factors important to patients may be observed in consultations	Next stage of the research informed by patient perspective and priorities