AIM We sought to ascertain the nursing and midwifery research priorities at a large private tertiary hospital in Australia. DESIGN A modified Delphi technique with two rounds of questionnaires. METHODS The first round survey was distributed to 448 nurses and midwives with a 19.2% (n=86) response rate. Due to a low response rate in some specialties, the second round of the Delphi was only se...

This paper established a comprehensive model of Delphi-AHP-DEA-FCE to evaluate competitiveness of sports tourism destinations. Research shows that, this model effectively constructed an indicator system for the competitiveness of sports tourism destination, and weights for all indicators were obtained by analysis. Second, the comprehensive model translated fuzzy evaluation into numerical values...

BACKGROUND One preliminary step to strengthen medical education research would be determining the research priorities. The aim of this study was to determine the research priorities of medical education in Iran in 2007-2008. METHODS This descriptive study was carried out in two phases. Phase one was performed in 3 stages and used Delphi technique among academic staffs of Isfahan University of...

Objective: The main purpose of this research is review of principles, concepts, problems and solutions of soil ethic. Methods: In this research by descriptive method and Delphi technique was used for identifying soil ethical concepts, soil ethical principles, problems and difficulties of soil ethics in Iran and al around the world and suggestions for improvement of soil ethics in Iran. The popu...