Meeting of Quality Standards Joint Respiratory Effectiveness Group and EAACI Taskforce held in London during ERS 2016 Congress

1. REG–EAACI
TASKFORCE
QUALITY STANDARD IN ASTHMA CER
DATE: Saturday September 3rd
TIME: 11.45am – 12.15pm
VENUE: Royal College of General Practitioners;
30 Euston Square, London, UK
Dissemination Planning

2. AGENDA
• DISSEMINATION PLANNING:
o Manuscript outines
o Target journals
o Maximising the impact

3. Planned papers: June/ATS discussions

4. Target journals
Main paper
• Allergy
QA Tool paper
• ERJ…?
• Marc Humbert
contacted; potentially
interested
• Nicolas or Guy to
follow up

5. Timelines
April 2016 Results presented at REG Summit, Lyon
May 2016 Next steps discussed at ATS, San Francisco
June/July 2016 Outlines developed (Nicolas, Jon)
August 2016 Outlines circulated to taskforce members
Sept 19th 2016 Comments requested from taskforce members
Nov 2016 Parallel submissions to target journals

6. Launching the tool
In coordination with publication of the Taskforce Papers:
1. Make the quality assessment
tool available via the REG website:
– Online list of quality criteria
checklist
– Option to download desktop
(Excel) version
2. Linking with the EAACI website
– Page on the EAACI site, and/or
– Link to the REG page via the EAACI site

7. Launching the tool: Society interactions
1. Link with other societies for their comment:
o ERS
– ERS Guidelines Group (via Marc
Miravitlles) to see whether the tool could
be of utility to them as a research appraisal
and guideline development aid
§ Possible ERJ Editorial?
– ERS Vision team to see whether there may be interest
in featuring the tool on their website and/or to interview
Nicolas about the work of the taskforce
o ATS
– Contact Kevin Wilson (leads an evidence synthesis
group within the ATS) who may be interested in looking
at the tool and commenting on its potential utility.

8. Launching the tool: Journal interactions
1. Contacting all respiratory journal editors
o Invite them to send the tool to reviewers to help with
quality appraisal of comparative effectiveness papers
2. Contact Lancet Respiratory Medicine to see
whether they may be interested in an editorial as
follow up to the REG research framework (Roche
et al), which the tool builds on
3. Ask all REG collaborators to utilise and refer to
the tool in their peer review of observational
research, e.g. “the paper meets / does not meet
the REG quality standards” – Ripple effect...

9. Educational potential
• ...?