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Please see below a list of reports and publications from the PIRRIST study so far.

  • Recruitment and retention of participants in UK surgical trials: survey of key issues reported by trial staff. Open-access journal article. BJS Open 2020.
  • Presentation slides from the PIRRIST seminar held in Oxford on 12th March 2019.
  • Patient and public involvement (PPI) in UK surgical trials: a survey and focus groups with stakeholders to identify practices, views and experiences. Open-access journal article including lay summary. Trials 2019; 20:119.
  • Impact of patient and public involvement on enrolment and retention in clinical trials: systematic review and meta-analysis. Open-access journal article. BMJ 2018; 363:k4738. Lay summary published separately.
  • PIRRIST: A patient and public involvement (PPI) intervention to enhance recruitment and retention in surgical trials. Oral presentation at the IDEAL Conference, Bristol, September 2018.
  • How might patient and public involvement (PPI) improve recruitment and retention in surgical trials? A qualitative study exploring the views of trial staff and PPI contributors. Oral presentation (stage 2 findings) at the 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference / 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Liverpool, May 2017. Click here to view a lay summary.
  • Developing a Patient and public Involvement intervention to enhance Recruitment and Retention In UK Surgical Trials (PIRRIST). Oral presentation (stage 1 findings) at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Montreal, May 2016.
  • Developing a Patient and public Involvement intervention to enhance Recruitment and Retention In UK Surgical Trials (PIRRIST). Poster presentation (stage 1 findings) at the IDEAL Conference, Oxford, April 2016.
  • PPI: calling all surgical researchers... Promotional article in Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons, December 2015.
  • Developing a Patient and public Involvement intervention to enhance Recruitment and Retention in Surgical Trials (PIRRIST): study protocol. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Glasgow, November 2015.