Development of Generic Quality Indicators for Patient-Centered Cancer Care by Using a RAND Modified Delphi Method

Uphoff, Eleonora; Wennekes, Lianne; Punt, Cornelis J. A.; Grol, Richard; Wollersheim, Hub; Hermens, Rosella; Ottevanger, Petronella B.

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“…In Delphi studies to construct indicators, a commonly seen design includes three rounds whose aims are different, for example, to identify or select indicators in the first step, to validate them, to rate or rank their importance or feasibility in the second step, and to seek raters' consensus or verify the results in the last step (see Boulkedid et al, 2011;Gear et al, 2012;Schmidt, 1997;Uphoff et al, 2012;Wilson et al, 2012). However, a major difference between studies is that some researchers rely entirely on experts in discovering issues and indicators while some conduct a literature review and prepare a set of indicators prior to Delphi steps as can be seen in Wilson et al (2012) and Uphoff et al (2012).…”

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“…It was used to construct, identify, select and validate factors and indicators in a number of studies, for example Boulkedid, Abdoul, Loustau, Sibony, and Alberti (2011); Davies et al (2011); Garcia-Aracil and Palomares-Montero (2012); Ma, Shao, Ma, and Ye (2011); Uphoff et al (2012); Wilson, Hauck, Bremner, and Finn (2012). In the study, a modified Delphi method is employed to develop a comprehensive weighted indicator system for measuring and benchmarking university governance practices.…”

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Developing University Governance Indicators and their Weighting System Using a Modified Delphi Method

Quyen

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The need to measure and benchmark university governance practices at institutional level has been growing, yet there is a lack of a comprehensive, weighted indicator system to facilitate the process. The paper discusses the development of university governance indicators and their weighting system using a three-round Delphi method. Discussions, a questionnaire, and interviews were used in Round 1 to 3, respectively, to collect experts' opinions to construct the indicator list and indicator weights, and to shed light on the divergence of expert judgements on some aspects. Non-parametric statistical techniques were applied to analyse the survey data. Ninety-one indicators grouped in five dimensions of university governance, namely Management and Direction, Participation, Accountability, Autonomy and Transparency, were proposed and rated in terms of their importance. The preliminary results show relatively high levels of importance for all of the proposed indicators, thus none was excluded. The weighting of the indicators and factors vary remarkably. Among the five dimensions, Participation is found to be the least important; experts' consensus is found to be low in Participation and Transparency. The study results also provide important implications to researchers and practitioners in university governance.

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Developing University Governance Indicators and their Weighting System Using a Modified Delphi Method

Quyen

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…To identify the variables, we used a Delphi-type expert consultation (Tropea, Amatya, & Brand, 2011;Uphoff et al, 2012) founded on the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method (Brook, 1994). Variables identified in a literature review were submitted to experts in a two-round postal Delphi survey.…”

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Identifying Psychosocial Variables for Home Care Services and How to Measure Them

Delli-Colli

Dubuc

Hébert

et al. 2013

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

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A Delphi-type expert consultation founded on the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness method was used to select variables related to older adults and environment characteristics perceived essential in assessing psychosocial needs and that could influence the social work workload in home care services. After two rounds of consultation, the 60 experts reached a consensus on 97 variables out of the 160 considered. A focus group made up of 10 experts identified tools that would allow us to measure the variables in a clinical context. Eighty-three percent of the variables selected could be measured with five instruments identified by the focus group experts.

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“…The objective was to develop a technique to obtain the most reliable consensus of a group of experts [11] . Delphi method facilitates the systematic process of developing indicators [12]. It is a method to extract, evaluate and match experts' independent opinions [13].…”

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“…It is a method to extract, evaluate and match experts' independent opinions [13]. Delphi method combines the experts' opinion and empirically derived information in decisions [12,13]. Moreover experts anonymity, comments and controlled feedback of panel group response promote consensus [14,15].…”

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Tabriz Clinical Governance Research Project (TCGRP): Study Protocol

Sadeghi‐Bazargani

Saadati²,

Tabrizi

et al. 2014

j clin res gov

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Ab s t r a c tThe Tabriz Clinical Governance Research Project (TCGRP) was conducted in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The project was done based on the National Clinical Governance Movement of the Iranian health system since 2009. The TCGRP aimed to monitor the progress of clinical governance in Tabriz hospitals. The TCGRP had three components: 1-A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify draft indicators. 2-Draft indicators were evaluated by experts through Delphi technique and expert panels, 3-The indicators were assessed through data collection at three sampling levels of hospitals, patients and community. All Tabriz hospitals (n=21) with various ownerships were included in the study. Moreover, 3000 patients (inpatients and outpatients) as well as 1050 Tabriz households were investigated. The TCGRP protocol is designed to provide basic performance information for policymakers as well as the researchers in field of clinical governance. Results from TCGRP are assumed to identify the weaknesses and facilitate the development of effective interventions to improve the clinical governance practice.

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Development of Generic Quality Indicators for Patient-Centered Cancer Care by Using a RAND Modified Delphi Method

Abstract: This set provides an opportunity to measure and improve the quality of patient-centered cancer care. It is generic and therefore applies to many patients.

Cited by 62 publications

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Developing University Governance Indicators and their Weighting System Using a Modified Delphi Method

Developing University Governance Indicators and their Weighting System Using a Modified Delphi Method

Identifying Psychosocial Variables for Home Care Services and How to Measure Them

Tabriz Clinical Governance Research Project (TCGRP): Study Protocol

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