The existing medical benefits advisory committee regularly reviews new items proposed for the Medicare schedule, and on occasion existing items.
Respondents agreed with the terminology and definitions for all 20 items proposed.
The scales represent modified items proposed by Frymier et al. (1996) that measure student empowerment in an educational setting (Table 3).
All 20 items proposed in the initial questionnaire achieved a minimum 67% consensus with respect to whether the item should be considered (range = 68 to 100%), whilst terminology and definitions reported similar levels of agreement (68 to 100%).
Porter had told House in an email that she wanted to attend the convention "so I can support our delegation and offer email updates on the presidential nominee, platform items, proposed rules changes, etc".
The second Delphi exercise dealt with the selection of items proposed in the first round.
The first round verified the relevance of the items proposed by the research team.
Of three new items proposed by panellists, two were included in the list.
All of the scale items proposed yielded scores higher than 0.5 regarding the item-total correlation and were thus accepted.
The number of items to be chosen was proportional to the number of items proposed in each domain.
