“…Involvement and engagement with patients, families and healthcare providers beyond the roles of recruited participants was reported in 17 of the included articles (20.99%). The extent to which these members were involved included co‐design and evaluation of studies (Davies, 2015 ; Dollard et al, 2018 ; Fennelly et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2018 ; Liu et al, 2021 ; Outlaw et al, 2018 ; Richardson et al, 2007 ; Rushton et al, 2018 ; Sijm‐Eeken et al, 2020 ); co‐producing journey maps (Geerse et al, 2019 ); reviewing and validating study results (Jackson et al, 2012 ); developing, testing or providing suggestions and recommendations for journey mapping tools (Kelly et al, 2016 , 2017 ; Wauben et al, 2015 ) and; facilitating participant recruitment (Oliver et al, 2008 ). These engaged personnel were acknowledged in all of these articles either within the body of the text or in a dedicated acknowledgements paragraph.…”