Partnering with patients in the production of evidence.

Competing Interests: Competing interests: PJG has received grant funding from the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) in the past 5 years. He is on the Institute Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), where he has expenses reimbursed to attend meetings. He is on the editorial board of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. He is a member of the EBMLive steering committee, and he has expenses reimbursed to attend the conference. EC is a patient editor at the BMJ. She is also a member of the EBMLive steering committee, and has had expenses reimbursed to attend the conference.