To develop a simple and accurate delirium prediction score that would allow identification of individuals with a high probability of postoperative delirium on the basis of preoperative and immediate postoperative data.Postoperative delirium, although transient, is associated with adverse outcomes after surgery. However, there has been no appropriate tool to predict postoperative delirium.This w...

Teaching constitutes part of a psychiatrist's work. The essential determinants of best practice in psychiatric education as well as proven teaching methods are still lacking. The authors have presented the application of the Delphi technique to under- and postgraduate teaching programmes in diverse fields of medical knowledge. The Delphi method is based on systematic and anonymous refinement of...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate current issues and areas for improvement in the Korean Dental Hygienist National Licensing Examination (KDHNLE) through an expert Delphi survey. METHODS A Delphi survey was conducted from May through August 2016 in Korea. This Delphi survey included 20 persons representing the field of dental hygiene (7 groups from various dental hygiene-related organiz...

AIMS There is a growing recognition of the ways in which culture and sport can contribute to wellbeing. A strong evidence base is needed to support innovative service development and a 3-year research programme is being undertaken to capture best evidence of wellbeing impacts and outcomes of cultural and sporting activities in order to inform UK policy and practice. This article provides an ove...

The use of the term 'expert' occurs widely in healthcare research, in the context of national guidelines and consensus methods for the development of clinical protocols. Within consensus methods of research, especially Delphi panel techniques, the use of 'experts' is fundamental to reliability. Yet literature fails to debate the practicalities of defining 'experts' for use within Delphi panel r...

This paper presents the test results of running BBN's HARC spoken language system and DELPHI natural language understanding system on the ATIS benchmarks. We give a brief system overview, and review the major changes that have been made in Delphi since the last DARPA SLS workshop. We will briefly discuss the development and training process, and then present our test results and an analysis of ...

Much research has been devoted to the Delphi technique. However, very little substantive work has been done on the subject of Delphi accuracy. The purpose of this effort was to test the accuracy of Delphi vs the conference method in making long-range forecasts. College students were used to form Delphi and conference groups that predicted the point spreads of college football games far in advan...

Education needs assessment is one of the essential components of curriculum development. In this study, we aimed to assess the educational needs of general physicians for medical ethics. We conducted a three‐stage Delphi study of general physicians’ views on important ethical issues in their practice. In the item generation stage we retrieved 45 important educational items ...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become flavor du jour for many businesses. Seemingly, almost every company has implemented, is in the midst of implementing or is seriously considering a SOA project. A critical question many organizations are facing now is – what are the critical success factors for SOA implementations? This research aims to identify a list of factors relating to SOA imp...

tion techniques, such as predictive deconvolution or Radon transforms, fail in the presence of complex structures. A technique popularized by the Delphi consortium offers an attractive alternative in 2-D because it is theoretically independent of subsurface structure and can therefore attack all surface-related multiples regardless of their complexity. The Delphi approach can be summarized by t...