Establishing a multistakeholder research agenda: lessons learned from a James Lind Alliance Partnership

OBJECTIVE: The James Lind Alliance (JLA) offers a method for better aligning health and care agenda’s with the needs of patients, carers and clinicians by bringing them together in a Priority Setting Partnership (PSP). In this paper, we draw attention to crucial lessons learnt when establishing such a shared research agenda. KEY ARGUMENTS: Having specific strategies and plans in place for maximising dialogic processes in a PSP can help facilitate and maintain trust, innovation and equal inclusion. CONCLUSION: Eight lessons learnt have been formulated, based on our observations and reflections on the JLA PSP and our expertise on patient participation and participatory research.