1. Lo spazio Parita Paola Mosconi, Roberto Satolli Montecatini – L’Accademia del Cittadino
2. La partecipazione dei cittadini: l’effetto che, secondo medici e scienziati, potrebbe generare il coinvolgimento di “non specialisti” nelle scelta di come allocare i finanziamenti alla ricerca e di quali priorità perseguire sarebbe… «…come affidare le chiavi del manicomio ai pazzi» Nature
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Editor's Notes
COMMENT As shown in a recent questionnaire published on the British Medical Journal – posted a questionnaire to 62 clinical trial coordinating groups in UK - only 37% have already involved consumers or patients in designing, conducting and interpretation randomised trials. By the way, the American National Breast Cancer Coalition after a hard work of training for activists as voting member of scientific review panels for proposal breast cancer research. The experience has been reported in the last ASCO meeting: at the end of the process of review and after a pre and post evaluation, having consumers on review panel was reported to be beneficial and to not have drawbacks.