MuSE News

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Read the latest issue of our MuSE newsletter here.

(Updated Apr. 7, 2025)

Our guidance for engaging with 10 types of interest-holders throughout the guideline development process has now been published. Check out the guidance here. 

(Updated Mar. 21, 2025)

Read our latest MuSE-Letter here. 

(Updated Dec. 20, 2024)

Read more on this newly published work here!

(Updated Nov. 29, 2024)

The MuSE consortium introduce an alternative term to "stakeholders" due to its colonial connotations. Read more on the new term "interest-holders" here!

(Updated Oct. 31, 2024)

Check out this new protocol publication here!

(Updated Oct. 17, 2024)

We presented a poster describing our MuSE-ES project and inviting people to sign up to participate in our survey when it's ready. Check this link for more information and click here to view the complete poster.

(Updated Sept. 23, 2024)

Read our latest MuSE-letter!

We have published 2 systematic review protocols for our MuSE- Evidence Synthesis project. 

These protocols are for the reviews:

1. Methods of engaging people in evidence syntheses - Protocol
2. Impact of engagement in evidence synthesis - Protocol

Check our OSF page for more information. 

(Updated: April 23, 2024)

With your input, we have selected a term to replace 'stakeholder'. 

Going forward, we will refer to groups of people whose interests should be considered in the context of health research as "Interest Holders". 

Stay tuned, for a link to the published paper describing this new term.

(Updated: February 6, 2024)

The MuSE team wishes you a very happy holiday season!

We look forward to continuing our work with you in 2024! 

(Updated: December 22, 2023)

We are seeking input from our members to choose our replacement term for 'stakeholder'. Please see our  the options in our new poll.

(Updated: November 28, 2023)

Check out the latest issue of the MuSE Newsletter for all our project updates and upcoming presentations. 

(Updated: September 18, 2023)

Olivia Magwood presented a poster describing our MuSE-ES poster at the 2023 Cochrane Colloquium in London. Click on the poster to enlarge.

Stay tuned for more links to our MuSE presentations from the Colloquium!

(Updated: September 13, 2023)

We have just published the protocol for our project to develop guidance for engaging with collaborators and partners in evidence synthesis.  This project has four sequential steps that will result in the development of consensus-driven guidance. 

Read more here.

(Updated: August 2, 2023)

Our paper describing the 6 key issues related to stakeholder engagement in guideline development has just been published. Read more here.

(Updated: May 18, 2023)

Read the latest news from MuSE.

(Updated: April 5, 2023)

The MuSE Consortium aims to be inclusive of all our members. We know that the term 'stakeholder' is problematic for some groups and therefore we need your help to find a suitable replacement. 

Please help us by completing this short survey to find an alternate term: https://forms.gle/TF7tmbdMH2RDUnpw9

(Updated: April 4, 2023)

Multi-Stakeholder Engagement in Guideline Development and Implementation.

When: Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern, 11:00 AM Central, 9:00 AM Pacific

This GIN-North America webinar will:

• Describe      stakeholders for guideline development and improving engagement.
• Define      engagement levels and describe how public members should be engaged      throughout guideline development.
• Discuss      the role of shared decision-making (SDM) in the implementation of guidelines      in the clinical setting.
• Share      tools that can be used to support SDM and patient-centered communication      and discussions about guideline-based care.  

Join Jennifer Petkovic and Mara Palm for this webinar discussing multi-stakeholder engagement in guideline development. With Maya Gerstein (AHRQ).

 Register now to attend  

The Campbell Collaboration held its first 2023 webinar. 

Olivia Magwood presented on 'Stakeholder engagement in evidence synthesis: Updates from the Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Consortium. 

The recording is available on the Campbell website. The slides are posted on our events page.

(Updated: April 4, 2023) 

Alex Todhunter-Brown will be speaking on a panel discussion at the Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf). The panel focus is on stakeholder engagement and evidence synthesis. 

The ESMARConf registration is free (or small donation) from March 27th to 31st. Find out more here.

Alex is speaking on Wednesday, March 29th at 12pm BST. Watch this panel on YouTube.

(Updated March 22, 2023)

The MuSE team had a busy year in 2022! Check out our post describing what we've accomplished over the past 12 months and what we're planning for the start of 2023.

Wishing you a very happy new year!

(Updated December 23, 2022)

Cochrane has a new framework focused on involving  stakeholders in consumer (patient, carer and public) engagement and involvement.

The framework has five elements at its heart: Engagement, Co-production, Accessibility, Partnership, along with Evaluation and reporting. 

You can find out more about what this means for Cochrane and stakeholders  in engagement and involvement here.

(Updated December 1, 2022)

This Thursday December 1st, the annual 2022 Bruyère Research Day will be held. There will be engaging snapshot presentations from researchers as well as informative posters on a variety of projects.

Thomas Grant will be presenting a research snapshot on Stakeholder Engagement in Guideline Development (poster here).

Caitlin Shyng will be presenting a poster on Stakeholder Engagement in Health Care Evidence Synthesis. Explore the links below to learn more.

1. Stakeholder engagement in systematic reviews 
2. Project Update

(Updated November 30, 2022)

We are proud to congratulate Omar Dewidar for winning best poster for his work describing Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Assessment of Equity Considerations!

You can view his poster here.

(Updated: October 7, 2022)

We were fortunate to meet in-person with some of our MuSE team following the GIN 2022 conference in Toronto. 

We are so excited about what we'll be doing with MuSE over the next 6 months (and beyond). Stay tuned!

(Updated: September 25, 2022)

We will be presenting our recently published review protocols at the GIN 2022 Conference!

Check out the MuSE project posters and the rest of the GIN 2022 posters here!

Posters:

Dr. Jennifer Petkovic presenting: Guidance for stakeholder engagement in health guideline development: a scoping review 

Olivia Magwood presenting : Barriers and facilitators to stakeholder engagement in health guideline development

Live Presentations:

Ms. Joanne Khabasa presenting: Conflict of interest issues when engaging stakeholders in health and healthcare guideline development: a systematic review

Let us know if you’ll be at GIN! We’d love to connect!

(Updated: September 21, 2022)

We are excited to unveil the new MuSE Consortium logo! This logo was developed by our co-op students Angeline Pink and Emily Huang. Several options were presented and voted on by members of the MuSE Consortium. We also thank Obinna Ikeonu! 

(Updated: September 6, 2022)

For our MuSE Guidelines project, we are conducting a series of systematic reviews to synthesize the literature related to stakeholder engagement in guidelines. Check out the protocols for more information:

Petkovic J, et al. PROTOCOL: Guidance for stakeholder engagement in health guideline development: a scoping review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 2022. DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1242

Magwood O, et al. PROTOCOL: Barriers and facilitators to stakeholder engagement in health guideline development: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 2022. DOI:10.1002/cl2.1237

Khabsa J, et al. PROTOCOL: Conflict of interest issues when engaging stakeholders in health and healthcare guideline development: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 2022. DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1232

(Updated: August 30, 2022)

We are inviting individuals representing any of our 10 stakeholder groups to participate in an interview. You will have the opportunity to shape our guidance by giving feedback on our draft extension to the GIN-McMaster checklist for guideline development.  

We hope to provide guidance on how and when to involve stakeholders in the guideline development process.

Please contact Olivia Magwood (omagwood@bruyere.org) or visit our interview webpage to schedule an interview. 

(Updated: August 11, 2022)

The annual GIN Conference will take place September 21-24, 2022  in Toronto, Canada. There are 4 MuSE project posters to be presented. More details to come!(Updated: August 11, 2022) 

 We're introducing a new way to connect with the MuSE Consortium and anyone else interested in stakeholder engagement in research! Check this page often. We'll include project updates and other information that may be of interest to all our MuSE members.(Updated: August 11, 2022)