Stage 2: Choose the Question
​Thank you for voting on the question you want to answer with The People's Review. ​
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We will now collate your votes to come up with THE question.
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A really important part of the systematic review process is making sure that the question we tackle isn't already answered. We want to make sure that The People's Review tackles a question that answers a real gap in our knowledge. If we didn't do this then we might waste lots peoples time (and some money!) by trying to answer a question that has already been answered! This step helps us reduce research waste. Research waste shouldn’t happen, but it does. See here for more information on research waste.​
​In this video Patricia describes the process we will use to decide our review question. ​​​
Stage 2 is Now Closed
In Stage 1 the public suggested 185 brilliant health questions. More details available here. Then, in Stage 2 we brought forward 21 questions that people voted on in two rounds of surveys. In Round 1, 193 people let us know how much or how little they liked each question. Then, we went back to the public with three* possible options to rank in order of preference. 188 people ranked the questions, to decide the People's favourite question. ​
*Originally we planned for the public to rank the top 5 questions. But, on closer inspection, we found that some of our top-ranking questions had already been answered by previous research. See the list of questions from Stage 2 here.