Methods A modified Delphi technique established the skills, attitudes and practices thought to be core for clinical teachers within our region. We identified relevant statements from the literature. Individuals
We invited GPs to engage in a modified Delphi procedure with a predefined feature set designed to seek consensus on the information that should be addressed and recorded for a child with suspected appendicitis. Participants received a vignette that described a typical child with suspected appendicitis...
Consensus methods have the aim of canvassing opinion from a panel of experts; this is particularly relevant in pMSK medicine where the views of primary care doctors, paediatricians and pMSK specialists are all required. The modified Delphi method is used commonly within healthcare research [38–40...
Taking up the mandate given us by the editorial board, we narrowed and otherwise gave up definition to what appeared to us at first to be a wide, amorphous concept, teasing out and naming the constitutive fields and sub-fields. We did this through a modified Delphi technique鈥攕ending lists...
In a Delphi technique, the identity of the group members is not revealed, and they are not even required to gather for a physical meeting. Each member is free to give his opinion with respect to the problem, thereby avoiding the influential effect that a powerful or authoritative member can...
[39] in 2012 using a modified Delphi technique, which was developed by the Canada Institute of Health Economics (IHE); hence, it is also called "IHE Quality Appraisal Tool" (Table S1N). Moreover, NIH also de- velops a quality assessment tool for case series study, including 9 items (...
Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment is an important step before study initiation usage. Therefore, accurately judging study type is the first priority, and the choosing proper tool is also important. In this review, we introduced methodologi
Delphi surveys are based on the principle that structured expert group participation from differing perspectives is more valid than individual judgements. They are conducted with a panel of experts through an iterative multi-stage process and can provide insight when observational or experimental data are...
Using a modified Delphi technique, members of the InPLT held a series of Sample 526 individuals completed the consent and 422 of these completed the majority of the survey (80% response rate). Since not all of the 422 respondents answered all of the questions, the sample size is included ...
With these significant gaps in the research, it is challenging for clinicians seeing patients with massive irreparable rotator cuff tears to advise on what is their best treatment pathway. Methods A three round Delphi study was conducted with expert shoulder physiotherapist...