Delphi Technique

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2021 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Surgical treatment of acute type A aortic dissection. 
  • A Comparative Analysis of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Guideline Development Methodologies. 
  • A Delphi-based consensus clinical practice protocol for the diagnosis and management of 3-methylcrotonyl CoA carboxylase deficiency. 
  • A Global eDelphi Exercise to Identify Core Domains and Domain Items for the Development of a Global Registry of Alopecia Areata Disease Severity and Treatment Safety (GRASS). 
  • A New Brief Clinical Assessment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms for Women and Men: LURN SI-10. 
  • A consensus-based framework for conducting and reporting osteoarthritis phenotype research. 
  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus. 
  • A model for adapting clinical guidelines for electronic implementation in primary care. 
  • A novel classification system for spinal instability in neoplastic disease: an evidence-based approach and expert consensus from the Spine Oncology Study Group. 
  • A panel assessment of glaucoma management: modification of existing RAND-like methodology for consensus in ophthalmology. Part I: Methodology and design. 
  • A provider global assessment quality measure for clinical practice for inflammatory skin disorders. 
  • A typology of longitudinal integrated clerkships. 
  • AABIP Evidence-informed Guidelines and Expert Panel Report for the Management of Indwelling Pleural Catheters. 
  • ACCF/ACR/SCCT/SCMR/ASNC/NASCI/SCAI/SIR 2006 appropriateness criteria for cardiac computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Quality Strategic Directions Committee Appropriateness Criteria Working Group, American College of Radiology, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, North American Society for Cardiac Imaging, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Interventional Radiology. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) Locoregional therapy for resectable oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® ipsilateral radiation for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil. 
  • ACR appropriateness criteria® hemoptysis. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Perioperative Management of Patients on Preoperative Opioid Therapy. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Perioperative Opioid Minimization in Opioid-Naïve Patients. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Postoperative Delirium Prevention. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guidelines: formal systematic review-based consensus methodology. 
  • An international consensus on the appropriate evaluation and treatment for adults with spinal deformity. 
  • Assessing the Importance of IOP Variables in Glaucoma Using a Modified Delphi Process. 
  • Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. 
  • Best supportive care in clinical trials: review of the inconsistency in control arm design. 
  • Can We Finally Agree: How We Round Really Matters? 
  • Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Consensus Treatment Plans for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Associated and Idiopathic Chronic Anterior Uveitis. 
  • Chiropractic Integrated Care Pathway for Low Back Pain in Veterans: Results of a Delphi Consensus Process. 
  • Clinical Consensus Statement: Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube. 
  • Clinical Teaching Competencies in Physical Therapist Education: A Modified Delphi Study. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research: Alternatives to "Traditional" Computed Tomography Use in the Acute Care Setting. 
  • Competencies, Milestones, and a Level of Supervision Scale for Entrustable Professional Activities for Scholarship. 
  • Consensus Recommendations for the Conduct, Training, Implementation, and Research of Perioperative Handoffs. 
  • Consensus Statement on Circulating Biomarkers for Advanced Prostate Cancer. 
  • Consensus in controversy: The modified Delphi method applied to Gynecologic Oncology practice. 
  • Consensus on Language for Advance Informed Consent in Health Care-Associated Pneumonia Clinical Trials Using a Delphi Process. 
  • Consensus on an implicit bias and health disparities curriculum in neonatal medicine: a Delphi study. 
  • Consensus-Based Recommendations on the Prevention of Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Delphi Consensus Statement. 
  • Consensus-based standards for best supportive care in clinical trials in advanced cancer. 
  • Core Outcome Measures for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Research: Recommendations from a Veterans Health Administration Work Group. 
  • Core feature sets: not just for outcomes, not just for research. 
  • Core outcome measures for clinical effectiveness trials of nutritional and metabolic interventions in critical illness: an international modified Delphi consensus study evaluation (CONCISE). 
  • Core outcomes set for research on the treatment of opioid use disorder (COS-OUD): the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network protocol for an e-Delphi consensus study. 
  • Creating ED point-of-care testing protocols: an expert panel and Delphi process. 
  • Deconstructing Chronic Low Back Pain in the Older Adult-Step by Step Evidence and Expert-Based Recommendations for Evaluation and Treatment: Part X: Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome. 
  • Defining the characteristics of intermediate care models including transitional care: an international Delphi study. 
  • Delineation of nursing administration research priorities. 
  • Delphi Consensus on Intraoperative Technical/Surgical Aspects to Prevent Surgical Site Infection after Colorectal Surgery. 
  • Delphi Method Consensus on Priority Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Conditions and Procedures. 
  • Delphi Method to Develop a Palliative Care Tool for Children and Families in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Developing Teaching Strategies in the EHR Era: A Survey of GME Experts. 
  • Developing a National Trauma Research Action Plan: Results from the geriatric research gap Delphi survey. 
  • Developing a Tool to Assess Placement of Central Venous Catheters in Pediatrics Patients. 
  • Developing classification criteria for skin-predominant dermatomyositis: the Delphi process. 
  • Developing quality indicators for family support services in community team-based mental health care. 
  • Development and evaluation of a new taxonomy of mobility-related assistive technology devices. 
  • Development of ASMBS research agenda for bariatric surgery using the Delphi methodology. 
  • Development of a Clinical Decision Aid for Chiropractic Management of Common Conditions Causing Low Back Pain in Veterans: Results of a Consensus Process. 
  • Development of a New International Antiphospholipid Syndrome Classification Criteria Phase I/II Report: Generation and Reduction of Candidate Criteria. 
  • Development of a Quality Checklist Using Delphi Methods for Prescriptive Clinical Prediction Rules: the QUADCPR. 
  • Development of a Standardized Set of Patient-centered Outcomes for Advanced Prostate Cancer: An International Effort for a Unified Approach. 
  • Development of a consensus core dataset in juvenile dermatomyositis for clinical use to inform research. 
  • Development of a core capability framework for qualified health professionals to optimise care for people with osteoarthritis: an OARSI initiative. 
  • Development of a core outcome set for basal cell carcinoma. 
  • Development of a disease activity and responder index for psoriatic arthritis--report of the Psoriatic Arthritis Module at OMERACT 11. 
  • Development of a surgical competency assessment tool for sentinel lymph node dissection by minimally invasive surgery for endometrial cancer. 
  • Development of an Emergency Department Trigger Tool Using a Systematic Search and Modified Delphi Process. 
  • Development of best practices to minimize wound complications after complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a modified Delphi study. 
  • Development of draft validation criteria for a soluble biomarker to be regarded as a valid biomarker reflecting structural damage endpoints in rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis clinical trials. 
  • Diagnosis and management of pemphigus: Recommendations of an international panel of experts. 
  • ESPACOMP Medication Adherence Reporting Guideline (EMERGE). 
  • ESPACOMP Medication Adherence Reporting Guidelines (EMERGE): a reactive-Delphi study protocol. 
  • Eight critical skill sets required for manual therapy competency: a Delphi study and factor analysis of physical therapy educators of manual therapy. 
  • Engaging stakeholders and target groups in prioritising a public health intervention: the Creating Active School Environments (CASE) online Delphi study. 
  • Establishing metastatic prostate cancer quality indicators using a modified Delphi approach. 
  • Expert Consensus Regarding Core Outcomes for Enhanced Recovery after Cesarean Delivery Studies: A Delphi Study. 
  • Expert Consensus of Data Elements for Collection for Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Expert consensus on characteristics of wisdom: a Delphi method study. 
  • Factors associated with physiotherapists' confidence during assessment of clinical cervical and lumbar spine instability. 
  • Focal laser ablation as clinical treatment of prostate cancer: report from a Delphi consensus project. 
  • Generation of a Core Set of Items to Develop Classification Criteria for Scleroderma Renal Crisis Using Consensus Methodology. 
  • Gout, Hyperuricemia, and Crystal-Associated Disease Network Consensus Statement Regarding Labels and Definitions for Disease Elements in Gout. 
  • Guidelines for neuromuscular ultrasound training. 
  • Health care for childhood cancer survivors: insights and perspectives from a Delphi panel of young adult survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • How should we implement psychiatric advance directives? Views of consumers, caregivers, mental health providers and researchers. 
  • ICF core sets: how to specify impairment and function in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Identifiers suggestive of clinical cervical spine instability: a Delphi study of physical therapists. 
  • Identifying risk factors and detection strategies for adolescent depression in diverse global settings: A Delphi consensus study. 
  • Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. 
  • Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. 
  • Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. 
  • Impact of a medical journal club on house-staff reading habits, knowledge, and critical appraisal skills. A randomized control trial. 
  • Important clinical descriptors to include in the examination and assessment of patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: an international and multi-disciplinary Delphi survey. 
  • Improving health care for adult survivors of childhood cancer: recommendations from a delphi panel of health policy experts. 
  • Influence of projected complication rates on estimated appropriate use rates for carotid endarterectomy. Appropriateness Project Investigators. Academic Medical Center Consortium. 
  • Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelines. 
  • International Consensus Recommendations for the Treatment of Pediatric NMDAR Antibody Encephalitis. 
  • International and Interdisciplinary Identification of Health Care Transition Outcomes. 
  • International consensus definitions of clinical trial outcomes for kidney failure: 2020. 
  • Joint international consensus statement on crowdsourcing challenge contests in health and medicine: results of a modified Delphi process. 
  • Management of Male Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline. 
  • Management of Perioperative Iron Deficiency in Cardiac Surgery: A Modified RAND Delphi Study. 
  • Manual Therapy in Preadolescent Children: A Delphi Investigation of Physical Therapists in the United States. 
  • Metrics to assess the quantity of antibiotic use in the outpatient setting: a systematic review followed by an international multidisciplinary consensus procedure. 
  • Milestone-Based Assessments Are Superior to Likert-Type Assessments in Illustrating Trainee Progression. 
  • Molecular biomarkers in the context of focal therapy for prostate cancer: recommendations of a Delphi Consensus from the Focal Therapy Society. 
  • Multidisciplinary consensus on assessment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: proposal of an international research group. 
  • Neuroanesthesia Guidelines for Optimizing Transcranial Motor Evoked Potential Neuromonitoring During Deformity and Complex Spinal Surgery: A Delphi Consensus Study. 
  • Neuropathic pain phenotyping by international consensus (NeuroPPIC) for genetic studies: a NeuPSIG systematic review, Delphi survey, and expert panel recommendations. 
  • Nursing administration research in hospitals and schools of nursing. 
  • Objective Assessment of the Interfrontal Angle for Severity Grading and Operative Decision-Making in Metopic Synostosis. 
  • Occupational Science Concepts Essential to Occupation-Based Practice: Development of Expert Consensus. 
  • Operationalization of the new Pain and Disability Drivers Management model: A modified Delphi survey of multidisciplinary pain management experts. 
  • Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an international consensus. 
  • Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on postoperative blood pressure, risk and outcomes for elective surgery. 
  • Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on preoperative blood pressure, risk and outcomes for elective surgery. 
  • Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus statement on the physiology of arterial blood pressure control in perioperative medicine. 
  • Personalized Cancer Follow-Up Care Pathways: A Delphi Consensus of Research Priorities. 
  • Perspectives from the Society for Pediatric Research. Neonatal encephalopathy clinical trials: developing the future. 
  • Population Health, Prevention, Health Promotion, and Wellness Competencies in Physical Therapist Professional Education: Results of a Modified Delphi Study. 
  • Preliminary core sets of measures for disease activity and damage assessment in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and juvenile dermatomyositis. 
  • Preliminary criteria for global flares in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Priorities in updating training paradigms in orthopedic manual therapy: an international Delphi study. 
  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study. 
  • Proposed outcome measures for prospective clinical trials in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis: a consensus effort from the multinational interdisciplinary working group for uveitis in childhood. 
  • Purchasing oncology services. Kerr L. White Institute/American Cancer Society Task Force on Purchasing Oncology Services. 
  • Quality Improvement Guidelines for Percutaneous Nephrostomy. 
  • Quality Measures That Address the Upper Limb. 
  • Quality indicators for responsible antibiotic use in the inpatient setting: a systematic review followed by an international multidisciplinary consensus procedure. 
  • Radiology curriculum topics for medical students: students' perspectives. 
  • Recommendations for effective documentation in regional anesthesia: an expert panel Delphi consensus project. 
  • Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Cognitive Change Associated With Anaesthesia and Surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Relevant concepts of functioning for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus identified in a Delphi exercise of experts and a literature review. 
  • Reliability assessment of a novel cervical spine deformity classification system. 
  • Research priorities for the nursing of children and their families: a Delphi study 
  • Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding "Delphi Method Consensus on Priority Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Conditions and Procedures". 
  • Role of postmastectomy radiation after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage II-III breast cancer. 
  • SAGES consensus recommendations on an annotation framework for surgical video. 
  • Screening, patient identification, evaluation, and treatment in patients with Gaucher disease: Results from a Delphi consensus. 
  • Standardization of definitions in focal therapy of prostate cancer: report from a Delphi consensus project. 
  • Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of abdominal wall, paraspinal, and chest wall blocks. 
  • Stroke care: a method for measuring compliance with AHCPR guidelines. 
  • Subjective and objective descriptors of clinical lumbar spine instability: a Delphi study. 
  • Systematic review and consensus definitions for the Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative: infection and sepsis. 
  • Systematic review and consensus definitions for the Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative: patient comfort. 
  • Systematic review and consensus definitions for the Standardized Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative: cardiovascular outcomes. 
  • Systematic reviews and consensus definitions for the Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative: mortality, morbidity, and organ failure. 
  • Systemic Bevacizumab for Treatment of Respiratory Papillomatosis: International Consensus Statement. 
  • Testing of the preliminary OMERACT validation criteria for a biomarker to be regarded as reflecting structural damage endpoints in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials: the example of C-reactive protein. 
  • Textbook outcomes in DIEP flap breast reconstruction: a Delphi study to establish consensus. 
  • The 2020 update of the CEAP classification system and reporting standards. 
  • The Alopecia Areata Consensus of Experts (ACE) study part II: Results of an international expert opinion on diagnosis and laboratory evaluation for alopecia areata. 
  • The Alopecia Areata Consensus of Experts (ACE) study: Results of an international expert opinion on treatments for alopecia areata. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: World Spine Care executive summary on reducing spine-related disability in low- and middle-income communities. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: care pathway for people with spine-related concerns. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: classification system for spine-related concerns. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: methodology, contributors, and disclosures. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: model of care and implementation. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: resources to implement a spine care program. 
  • The Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study. 
  • The diagnostic utility of clinical tests for differentiating between cervicogenic and other causes of dizziness after a sports-related concussion: An international Delphi study. 
  • The opioid use disorder core outcomes set (OUD-COS) for treatment research: findings from a Delphi consensus study. 
  • Therapeutic decision making in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Toward population-based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing stakeholder agreement. 
  • Transition of Care from the Emergency Department to the Outpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. 
  • Treatment systems guidelines for primary rectal cancer from the 1996 Patterns of Care Study. 
  • Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop. 
  • Unifying the Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Fellowship Curriculum via Delphi Consensus. 
  • Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. 
  • Using Electronic Health Record Data to Measure Care Quality for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions. 
  • Utilization of focal therapy for patients discontinuing active surveillance of prostate cancer: Recommendations of an international Delphi consensus. 
  • Utilization of multiparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging in clinical practice and focal therapy: report from a Delphi consensus project. 
  • Validity of Level of Supervision Scales for Assessing Pediatric Fellows on the Common Pediatric Subspecialty Entrustable Professional Activities. 
  • Ventral Hernia Management: Expert Consensus Guided by Systematic Review. 
  • What Traits Are Reflective of Positive Professional Performance in Physical Therapy Program Graduates? A Delphi Study. 
  • What does it mean to be affiliated with care?: Delphi consensus on the definition of "unaffiliation" and "specialist" in sickle cell disease. 
  • Which Comorbid Conditions Should We Be Analyzing as Risk Factors for Healthcare-Associated Infections? 
  • [Improving the quality of reports on randomized controlled trials. Recommendations of the CONSORT Study Group]. 
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  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society