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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Delphi Process"”.
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Development of harmonised approaches for detecting and recording participant-reported anti-malarial drug safety data: The Delphi process
… researchers were invited to participate in a Delphi process, to facilitate consensus on what panellists consider to be optimal (relevant, important and feasible) methods, tools, and approaches for detecting participant-reported AE and non-study medication data in uncomplicated malaria …
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Development and Validation of an Assessment Tool Grounded in Occupational Adaptation Theory
… review results. In Phase 2, the modified Delphi process was conducted with subject matter experts. Following the Phase 2 Delphi process, revisions were made to the final version of the MAC assessment tool to improve its content validity with OA theory for items that did not meet the …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Health Technology Reassessment and Knowledge Translation
… and categorized according to five approaches: process models, determinant frameworks, classic theories, implementation theories, and evaluation frameworks. It provided a starting point for the selection of KT TMFs for HTR. The second study employed a modified Delphi process and expert survey to …
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Identifying critical-entry teaching competencies for beginning special educators: The Delphi study
… identified critical-entry competencies using a Delphi process with three rounds: (1) an initial identification of competencies, (2) a round of rating and (3) a round of re-rating. In round one, each panel member was randomly assigned to write competencies for three of six content areas: …
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Developing and testing a "responsibility" questionnaire for 8th graders
… Content validity was obtained using the delphi process. Reliability was estimated using a test of internal consistency. The questionnaire was completed by a small group of eighth graders. The test items were based on the definition of responsibility provided by the Character Counts …
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Dental hygiene program directors' opinions of the clinical licensing examination: a Delphi study
… one round of the study. Three rounds of the Delphi process were used to seek a level of consensus among panel members. Likert scale and ranking questionnaires followed the initial open-ended question, resulting in a list of the top 10 most agreed upon responses to the initial question. …
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Operationalizing a New Method for Defining and Scaling Social Innovations Using Tiny Home Communities as a Case Study
… recruited to participate in a two-round modified Delphi process, focused on narrowing the 99 characteristics down to the most essential qualities of tiny home villages addressing homelessness. Findings from two sequential online surveys resulted in 21 minimum critical specifications, which largely …
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Refractive management of patients undergoing cataract surgery. The development of pre and post-operative refractive management guidelines for patients undergoing cataract surgery in the UK
… following surgery. The PhD aimed to start the process of developing pre- and post-operative management guidelines for patients developed by both optometrists and ophthalmologists which could then be disseminated to both professions in the hope of improving the overall outcome of surgery. The …
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The Balancing Act: Work Environment Issues for Women with Children in Student Affairs
… affairs careers at universities in California. A Delphi process enabled the study participants, through four rounds of questionnaires, to arrive at consensus on the most important work environment issues affecting working mothers in both positive and negative ways. Strategies for both addressing …
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Intra-operative Prophylactic Pyloric Balloon Dilatation During Oesophagectomy to Prevent Early Delayed Gastric Emptying
… expert consensus (IEC) definition was done by a Delphi process and has not been validated locally. In UHP, there has been a local definition of DGE used. A comparison between the two defintions was carried out restrospectively (Chapter 4). The defintions were comaparable but identified different …
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Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models?
… This dissertation argues that structural and process strategies for integration need to be supplemented by attention to the social cognitions that characterize the behaviours of actors within healthcare systems. The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Shared Mental Model Theory might …
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Music student teaching in Texas: A Delphi study of issues in the new millennium.
… perceived by the music educators involved in the process and (b) to identify any potentially problematic areas which might be in need of attention or revision. Thirty-six music educators (12 university supervisors, 12 cooperating teachers and 12 student teachers) who were recently involved in the …
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A MULTI-METHOD STUDY FOR CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FRAMED IN LAWS AND STANDARDS FOR DISABILITY PROGRAMS
… program themes, terms, and definitions. A Delphi method via Survey Monkey® was utilized to identify and reach consensus about program factors and key performance indicators necessary to model essential management activities and activities associated with a Kaplan and Norton's Balanced …
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Probable future managerial response by nursing education administrators to trends in health care : a Delphi application
… individuals completed the total three round Delphi study.The following questions were investigated: (1) What events will most probably occur in health care by 1992?; (2) What events will most probably occur in nursing practice by 1992?; (3) What events will most probably occur in nursing …
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Invoking the public interest in planning
… procedures are evaluated and refined using a Delphi process to structure discussion among practitioners who are experienced in determining the substance of the public interest. By m!nimising reliance on contentious issues in the proposed procedures, emphasis can move away from procedural …
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Role Expectation of Chief Nurse Executive Officers in Integrated Healthcare Systems Located in Highly Managed Care Markets
… The research methodology employed was a Delphi process. A 25 member expert panel, 15 CNEOs and 10 CNEO supervisors, completed three iterative survey rounds. The panel retention rate was 83%. The panel reached consensus on 59 present-day and 59 identical future role expectations for CNEOs …
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Identification of model transition to employment program outcomes and activities for persons with disabilities
… and contributing activities. A two round Delphi process was used to build consensus as to those additional outcomes considered to be most important. This research identified 22 outcomes and associated activities considered to be the most important in addition to those now mandated in …
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Visualizing Algorithm Analysis Topics
… concepts. The pilot AACI was developed using a Delphi process involving a group of DSA instructors, and was shown to be a valid and reliable instrument to gauge students' understanding of the basic AA topics.
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Overcoming Challenges in Randomised Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Periodontal Research
… identified were brought forward to the consensus process. <br/><br/>Two consensus methods (‘e-Delphi process’ and ‘face to face consensus meeting’) were combined to effectively meet the COMET initiative’s stages: (ii) Filling gaps in knowledge and (iii) Eliciting views about important outcomes in …
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Gender Equity in Physics Education: Framing the Future of Physics Education Research in Canada
… analysis, interviews, questionnaires, and the Delphi technique. Phase one describes the sought-after lessons from experts in gender equity PER in the form of three major themes relating to what is currently known and unknown about gender equity in physics education, moving toward …
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