Themes and quotes for the best and worst daily experience.
| Best | Worst |
|---|---|
| Understanding the concept of OMERACT filter 2.0 | Knowledge gap and challenges regarding OMERACT Filter 2.0 |
| “Useful to review OMERACT process and policies in Filter 2.0 session” | “Do not understand Filter 2.0” |
| “Intellectual challenge especially with Filter 2.0” | |
| “Struggling with Filter 2.0 and how to incorporate into research” | |
| “Executive members are involved in development on Filter 2.0” | “Apart from the OMERACTers, F2.0 will be extremely complicated to use as opposed to basic TDF” |
| “Challenge in F2.0 SIG: the word parsimony did not translate to other countries” | |
| Networking and Intellectual Stimulation | Voting Issues/challenges Questions |
| “Finding people who think the way I would like to think” | “Questions to vote on were not given enough time” |
| “Conversations and interaction” | “Difficulty trying to follow decision without the data” |
| “Spirit interactivity” | “Uncomfortable feeling in voting process (1/3 of participants were in the room during voting)” |
| “Meet people interested in same field, OMERACT is effective work, good to see people interested in same thing” | “Trying to vote on things you didn’t go to” |
| “Networking” | |
| “Make new friends” | Data presentation skills and challenges |
| “Networking face to face - cannot be duplicated virtually especially with people interested in outcomes” | “…slides went too fast no time to digest info that was presented” |
| “Similar interests” | “Too much information to digest” |
| “Slide availability is not there” | |
| “Difficult to review pre-reading materials, too much” | |
| Small Group Discussions | Small Group Discussions |
| “(liked) Small group discussion after presentation of data” | “Data vs time to discuss it in one of the break-out sessions” |
| “liked discussions” | “No data on the topic in one of the break-out sessions” |
| “discussions were very informative” | “Rapporteurs and moderators did not move the topic along” |
| “Final goal of discussions are not always clear” | |
| “…discussion in (one of the) breakouts seemed driven by clinical practice. | |
| Struggled with how it works in Clinical Trial — what was the value added?” | |
| Patient involvement | Plenary Session |
| “Patient involvement in SIG (special interest group) sessions” | “Plenary summaries were not very useful unless you were attendance at the SIG” |
| “Patient involvement (was nice)” | “We need to have more votes in the final plenary” |
| “Why hear a report from all SIG’s when I already selected the ones I thought were interesting” | |
| Learning the science and process of outcomes research | Challenges with OMERACT process |
| “Watching sausage get made—looking at how these outcomes get created” | “Understanding the OMERACT process —feels like I have a long way to go” |
| “Feel like I have understanding of what is happening” | “Clarity in process assumes an incredible degree of complexity” |
| “Process feels like it is getting clearer” | |
| “Stimulating discussions” | |
| Collegial environment | |
| “Friendly people” | |
| Physical environment | Physical environment |
| “Food is good” | “Weather was bad…” |
| “Location” | |
| Learning new skills | |
| “Learnt how to do an accurate thumb exam” | |
| Utility of Newbie Session | |
| “Chance to come to newbie session” | |
| “Newbie session is very important and it should continue” | |
| Other | Other |
| “Sense of egalitarianism” | “Limited participation from countries in the East” |
| “Being able to talk about topic back to my institution and bring back to Brazil the methodology” | “Lack of sleep” |
| “No Abbreviations/Jargon should be used in presentations and program” |
OMERACT: Outcome Measures in Rheumatology; TDF: truth, discrimination, feasibility; SIG: special interest group; F2.0: OMERACT Filter 2.0.