title: CJCheck Stage 1: development and testing of a checklist for reporting community juries - Delphi process and analysis of studies published in 1996-2015.
abstract: Opportunities for community members to actively participate in policy development are increasing. Community/citizen's juries (CJs) are a deliberative democratic process aimed to illicit informed community perspectives on difficult topics. But how comprehensive these processes are reported in peer-reviewed literature is unknown. Adequate reporting of methodology enables others to judge process quality, compare outcomes, facilitate critical reflection and potentially repeat a process. We aimed to identify important elements for reporting CJs, to develop an initial checklist and to review published health and health policy CJs to examine reporting standards.
  
  
  
  Using the literature and expertise from CJ researchers and policy advisors, a list of important CJ reporting items was suggested and further refined. We then reviewed published CJs within the health literature and used the checklist to assess the comprehensiveness of reporting.
  
  
  
  CJCheck was developed and examined reporting of CJ planning, juror information, procedures and scheduling. We screened 1711 studies and extracted data from 38. No studies fully reported the checklist items. The item most consistently reported was juror numbers (92%, 35/38), while least reported was the availability of expert presentations (5%, 2/38). Recruitment strategies were described in 66% of studies (25/38); however, the frequency and timing of deliberations was inadequately described (29%, 11/38).
  
  
  
  Currently CJ publications in health and health policy literature are inadequately reported, hampering their use in policy making. We propose broadening the CJCheck by creating a reporting standards template in collaboration with international CJ researchers, policy advisors and consumer representatives to ensure standardized, systematic and transparent reporting.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice (CREBP), Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia.
authors.forename: Rae
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice (CREBP), Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sims
authors.affiliation: Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Degeling
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: Jackie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Street
authors.affiliation: Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Stacy M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, NSW, Australia.|School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rychetnik
authors.affiliation: Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Whitty
authors.affiliation: Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice (CREBP), Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Glasziou
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist / Q000379:methods*; D003256:Community Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D003697:Delphi Technique; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making
keywords: CJCheck; checklist; citizen jury; community jury; reporting standards