Table 1.

Important Terminology.

Term	Definition
Research uncertainty	•Submitted by health care professionals and individuals with lived experience via survey
	•Any important question about health care that cannot be answered by the existing body of evidence. Specifically, there are either no up-to-date, reliable systematic reviews or clinical practice guidelines that answer the question, or current evidence indicates that uncertainty exists
	•In this paper, the term “research uncertainty” is used interchangeably with survey response, survey submission, evidence uncertainty and in-scope question
Summary question	•Developed by the information specialist with input from the steering committee
	•An overarching question that summarizes similar submitted research uncertainties
Research priority	•A summary question that is deemed to be one of the most important and should be answered by future research
Individuals with lived experience	•An individual either diagnosed with or treated for degenerative cervical myelopathy or a caregiver/supporter