That is still some distance from developing ways of measuring legitimacy or of determining when decisions are fairer than others, given the lack of a prior consensus on what counts as a fair outcome.
The project was overseen by project staff at BU SPH, a team of professional facilitators with experience facilitating a prior consensus conference (Sclove 1997), and a steering committee [see Supplemental Material A (http://www.ehponline.org/members/2008/0800037/suppl.pdf)], which included seven experts from the fields of academia, government, industry, and advocacy.
Accountability for reasonableness can arguably be thought of as a form of pure procedural justice (Rawls 1971) because we lack prior consensus on the fine-grained principles needed to resolve disputes about these resource allocation issues, though we may arrive at mutually acceptable justifications through deliberation about specific cases.
"Fundamental questions need to be the object of that dialogue," Sarlo said, criticising Macri for appointing supreme court justices by decree without prior consensus.
Management now expects April-quarter earnings per share of $0.11 to $0.13, below the prior consensus of $0.14.
For the fiscal year ending January, Barnes & Noble targets per-share profits of $1.94 to $1.98, below the prior consensus of $2.08.
But the latest resolution UNHCR apparently goes further than the prior consensus, with additional focus on Internet censorship — emphasizing the importance of an accessible and open Internet to the achievement of development goals, and calling for accountability for violence, detentions, harassment and other violations against people for expressing themselves online.
Inter- and intrarater reliability are very high in experienced raters, but may be slightly lower for raters if no prior consensus between raters has been established on cases [28].
Prior consensus about the scoring system had been reached between all facilitators during the research meeting at the VUMC.
Although it was widely acknowledged that services for intermediate and rare types of cancer needed to be delivered more consistently, with patterns of service delivery reflecting caseload and the complexities of diagnosis and treatment, there was little prior consensus on the way forward.
We partly based our rationale for choosing this threshold on the opinions of prior consensus-based expert panels, that have proposed a 10% MCID for 1-year weight change patients with type 2 diabetes (while recognizing that weight reductions in type 2 diabetics are generally lower than non-diabetics) and a 15% MCID for statin uptake in patients with coronary disease [ 41, 42].
