Reporting guidelines for Delphi techniques in health sciences: A methodological review

作者：Julia Spranger, Angelika Homberg, Marco Sonnberger, Marlen Niederberger · 发表于：Zeitschrift für Evidenz Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.zefq.2022.04.025 · 被引用次数：260 · 研究领域：Delphi Technique in Research、Meta-analysis and systematic reviews、Academic Publishing and Open Access

BACKGROUND: Delphi techniques are conducted across different subfields in the health sciences. The reporting practices of studies using Delphi techniques vary, and current reporting guidelines for Delphi techniques focus on individual subfields of the health sciences or on different aspects of research and are therefore of limited applicability. The aim of this article was to identify similarities, differences, and possible shortcomings of existing Delphi reporting guidelines and to draft an initial proposal for a comprehensively applicable reporting guideline. METHODS: A systematic literature search for reporting guidelines on Delphi studies was performed in existing data resources based on databases in the health sciences (Scopus, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Epistemonikos) including publications from 2016 to 2021. In June 2021, we conducted an additional search in PubMed and included further studies by contacting experts of the scientific Delphi expert network (DeWiss). Title and abstract screening of articles was performed, followed by a full-text screening of the articles included. We qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated, compared and contrasted the reporting guidelines identified using content analysis and discussed the results among the members of the Delphi expert network. RESULTS: We retrieved ten health science articles with reporting guidelines for Delphi studies. In analyzing them, we identified nine main categories (Justification, Expert panel, Questionnaire, Survey de...