Prioritisation exercise 2026
We used the same mixed methods that we used in our first prioritisation exercise in 2020:
- We contacted professional societies, guideline development groups, the CS membership and patient representatives to ask for review title suggestions, using an online survey tool (Mailchimp).
- We reviewed prioritisation exercises relevant to our scope undertaken by the James Lind Alliance (JLA) and others. We also reviewed suggestions for research made by national and international guideline groups.
- We analysed Global Burden of Disease data up to 2023 for disease areas within our scope.
- We undertook a search of CENTRAL to identify recently published reports of studies within our scope.
- We collated download information, citation data and Altmetric scores for our existing portfolio of review titles.
We gathered all this information into a document, with summaries for each condition or topic area, and suggestions for a shortlist of titles or updates that was sent to our international editors to rate their preferences.
The final results :
