Stakeholder recruitment strategies
| Stakeholder group | Panel | Recruitment methods |
| People born with gastroschisis | Personal experience panel | Mailing lists, websites and Facebook groups of UK and international gastroschisis support groups. |
| Parents of children born with gastroschisis | Mailing lists and meetings for a Parental Advisory Group established by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. | |
| Paediatric surgeons | Neonatal panel | Direct approaches to experts known to members of the SMG and those identified on a search of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) register as having a special interest in management of children with gastroschisis. BAPS mailing lists, newsletters and website. Direct approach to clinical leads at each paediatric surgical centre in the UK for the BAPS-CASS gastroschisis study. |
| Neonatologists | Neonatal panel | Direct approach to experts known to members of the SMG. Mailing lists, bulletin and website of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine. |
| Fetal medicine specialists | Neonatal panel | Direct approach to experts known to members of the SMG. Mailing list of the fetal medicine clinical study group of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society. |
| Specialist nurses | Neonatal panel | Direct approaches to experts known to members of the SMG. Mailing list of the Neonatal Nurses Association and the National Neonatal Surgical Benchmarking Group. |
| Paediatricians | Non-neonatal panel | Direct approach to experts known to members of the SMG. Mailing list of the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. |
| Researchers | Non-neonatal panel | Direct approaches to experts known to members of the SMG and prominent gastroschisis researchers identified through searches of the literature. |
| Specialist paediatric surgical nurses | Neonatal panel | Direct approach to experts known to members of the SMG. |
| Dietitians | Non-neonatal panel | Direct approach to experts known to members of the SMG. Mailing list of the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. |
BAPS-CASS, British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System; SMG, Study Management Group.