The Place and Importance of Patients in Deliberative Processes

Methodological guidance for incorporating equity when informing rapid-policy and guideline development

“…We anticipate that researchers conducting rapid reviews in the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies will find the guidance we propose in this paper helpful in explicitly considering health equity in their development process. Meaningful and timely patient and public involvement appears more and more clearly as a necessity because it has been argued that ‘the insights they provide are the key to ethical decision making, which is the only sustainable solution to inequities’ [ 107 ].…”