Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
College of Pharmacy, QU Health Chair of the Interprofessional Education Committee, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2022 Jan;18(1):2237-2248. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.06.028. Epub 2021 Aug 12.
Consensus research methods are used in health services research to generate evidence through systematic means of measuring collective agreement and developing consensus from experts of a subject matter. Delphi technique is the most commonly reported consensus research method and is a structured, multistage interaction method to determine consensus using repetitive administration of anonymous questionnaires across two or three rounds. The Delphi technique is increasingly being used in pharmacy practice research. Despite its wide use in the development of statements of policies, guidelines, and performance indicators, there is lack of standardized guidelines and criteria to support the Delphi technique study design, conduct, and reporting, leading to inconsistent approaches and methodological difficulties among researchers. In this themed article, we provide the reader with a collation of best practices and highlight key methodological issues and areas of uncertainty of the Delphi method, especially as it pertains to pharmacy practice research.
共识研究方法被用于卫生服务研究中，通过系统的方法测量集体一致性，并从主题专家那里得出共识。德尔菲技术是最常用的共识研究方法，它是一种结构化的、多阶段的交互方法，通过在两轮或三轮中重复使用匿名问卷来确定共识。德尔菲技术在药学实践研究中越来越多地被使用。尽管它在政策声明、指南和绩效指标的制定中被广泛使用，但缺乏标准化的指南和标准来支持德尔菲技术的研究设计、进行和报告，导致研究人员之间的方法不一致和方法上的困难。在这篇专题文章中，我们为读者提供了最佳实践的汇编，并强调了德尔菲方法的关键方法问题和不确定性领域，特别是与药学实践研究有关的问题。
