摘要：Background Childhood diarrhoea remains a major public health problem responsible for the deaths of approximately 800 000 children annually, worldwide.The present study was undertaken to further define research priorities for the prevention and treatment of diar- rhoea in low and middle income countries.We used the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) process for defining re- search priorities.This provided a transparent, systematic method of obtaining the opinions of experts regarding research priorities in childhood diarrhoea.The present report describes the deliberations of a workshop that reviewed these research priorities by stakeholders including colleagues from: government agencies, academic institu- tions, major funding agencies and non–governmental organizations.Methods The workshop included 38 participants, divided into four groups to consider issues in the categories of description, delivery, development and discovery.Each group received 20 to 23 questions/ research priorities previously identified by the CHNRI process.De- liberations and conclusions of each group were summarized in sepa- rate reports that were further discussed in a plenary session including all workshop participants.
