The James Lind Alliance is a UK-based non-profit making initiative, established in 2004.[1] It was established to bring patients, carers and clinicians together, in Priority Setting Partnerships, to identify and prioritise unanswered questions or evidence uncertainties that they agree are the most important. The intention is to ensure that those who fund health research are aware of what matters to patients, carers and clinicians who need to use the research in their everyday lives.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds the coordination of the JLA, but Priority Setting Partnerships find their own resources to fund their partnership. In 2016 the James Lind Alliance was granted the Societal Award of the Foundation Federation of Dutch Medical Scientific Societies (Federa) for their initiative to bring patients into partnerships for research priorities.[2]
- ^ The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9449, Pages 1923 - 1924, 27 November 2004
- ^ "Towards greater participation by patients in science | Federa". federa.org. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016.