Appendix 1: Potential specific contributions to the PANTHER trial

Potential specific contributions of the PANTHER trial are based on the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) from the National Information Standard Organization (NISO) (https://credit.niso.org). Anyone can contribute to one or more of the tasks that are listed below. Everyone who contributes to one or more tasks at any time during the trial is a collaborator.

Specific contributions to the PANTHER trial:

Conceptualization

  • Executive committee (chair / member)
  • Steering committee member

Funding acquisition

Methodology

  • Methodology committee (chair / member)
  • Project Administration
  • Intervention prioritization committee (chair / member)
  • Biology committee (chair / member)
  • Patient and public involvement committee (chair / member)
  • Engaging with industry committee (chair / member)
  • ESR involvement committee (chair / member)
  • Capacity building committee (chair / member)

Software

Resources

Supervision

Continental level

  • Continental / regional coordinator

National level

  • National coordinator
  • Central ethical approval
  • Biobank coordinator

Local level

  • Local coordinator
  • Local ethical approval

Investigation

  • Enrollment of study participants including:
    • Screening
    • Recruitment
    • Consent
    • Study drug administration
    • Data collection
  • Sample handling
  • Bronchoscopy

Data curation

Formal analysis

  • Development of statistical analysis plan
  • Statistical analysis

Validation

Visualization

Writing – original draft

Writing - reviewing and editing manuscript