Using the Delphi Technique to Determine Which Outcomes to Measure in Clinical Trials: Recommendations for the Future Based on a Systematic Review of Existing Studies

By Ian P. Sinha, R. Smyth, Paula R. Williamson. PLoS Medicine, 2011

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Ian Sinha and colleagues advise that when using the Delphi process to develop core outcome sets for clinical trials, patients and clinicians be involved, researchers and facilitators avoid imposing their views on participants, and attrition of participants be minimized.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

• How to use the nominal group and Delphi techniques (2016, methodology): “The Delphi Technique has been used with patients in a small number of studies to prioritise outcome measures for clinical trials [42] and has begun to be used with members of the public (in this case, parents of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) in pharmacy practice research [4”
• Developing core outcome sets for clinical trials: issues to consider (2012, methodology): “Reporting standards for studies specifically using Delphi methods to achieve consensus about a COS have been recommended [29].”
• The SCARE Statement: Consensus-based surgical case report guidelines. (2016, methodology): “In a subsequent round, participants were asked to rate their level of agreement with the revised item and any additional items that were suggested using a nine-point Likert scale and methodology as proposed by the GRADE group [11,12].”
• The STROCSS statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery (2017, methodology): “The questionnaire was conducted using standard Delphi Methodology [13].”
• The COMET Handbook: version 1.0 (2017, methodology): “Outcome measure(s) It is the third component that is the focus of this Handbook.”
• STROCSS 2019 Guideline: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery. (2019, methodology): “The questionnaire was conducted using standard Delphi Methodology [4].”