The James Lind alliance: tackling treatment uncertainties together.

The James Lind Alliance: tackling research mismatches.

What Are the Top 10 Research Questions in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease? A Priority Setting Partnership with the James Lind Alliance

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many uncertainties remain regarding optimal therapies and strategies for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Setting research priorities addressing therapies requires a partnership between health care professionals, patients and organisations supporting patients. We aimed to use the structure of the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership, which has been us...

Tackling treatment uncertainties together: the evolution of the James Lind Initiative, 2003–2013

At the end of 2003, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine published an article announcing the creation of the James Lind Initiative (JLI). The article began by recalling the way that James Lind, an 18th century Scottish naval surgeon, had confronted uncertainty about how to treat scurvy by doing a controlled trial. This had shown that oranges and lemons were a very effective cure for an ...

Top ten research priorities for brain and spine cavernous malformations.

Cavernous malformations, also known as cavernomas, aff ect people at any age and occur throughout the CNS. In the brain, they can cause haemorrhagic stroke and epileptic seizures, and in the spinal cord, they can bleed and cause myelopathy. Despite the availability of microsurgical excision and stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernoma treatment and known genetic causes of most familial forms of ...

Research priorities for shoulder surgery: results of the 2015 James Lind Alliance patient and clinician priority setting partnership

OBJECTIVE To run a UK based James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for 'Surgery for Common Shoulder Problems'. SETTING This was a nationally funded and conducted process. It was organised from a musculoskeletal research centre and Biomedical Research Unit in Oxford. PARTICIPANTS UK shoulder patients, carers and clinicians, involved in treating patients with shoulder pain and shoul...