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The following recommendations to optimize digital collaboration were identified: maintaining regular communication and information exchange, valuing and committing to the collaboration, using diverse communication channels, ensuring comprehensible communication, integrating feedback, fostering openness and understanding, diligent documentation and recordkeeping, and providing targeted training and support for patient representatives.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n These findings confirm and specify previously known opportunities and challenges of digital collaboration, adding crucial insights for its implementation in psycho-oncological research. 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