Agreement between uni- and multi-disciplinary panels was good.
As multi-disciplinary panels may select a wider range of predictors compared to single-disciplinary panels[ 33, 34], our panel consisted of health care professionals and researchers from different disciplines and geographical areas in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
A multi-disciplinary panel focused on children accused of being witches.
Consensus for the multi-disciplinary panel was defined as >60% agreement (≥17 members in agreement).
Cohen's kappa was used to assess agreement between the uni-disciplinary panel and multi-disciplinary panel assessments.
Moreover, recommendations made through multi-disciplinary panel discussion are more consistent than those of individual physicians [ 8, 9].
Each week during the study, a multi-disciplinary panel reviewed all adverse clinical occurrences from the preceding seven days.
Consultation summaries were independently scrutinized by one of two uni-disciplinary panels (general practice or ED) followed by a multi-disciplinary panel (Fig. 1).
Further questions were compiled around the Key Performance Indicators (KPI), developed from existing national BTS/NICE guidelines and following consultation with an expert multi-disciplinary panel.
Our multi-disciplinary panel included both professional and patient representatives; Kotter et al found that patient participation during QI development is extremely uncommon [ 12].
A multi-disciplinary panel assessed individual drugs to have none, possible, or definite anticholinergic properties with a score ranging from 0 to 3. ACB scale reported 88 medicines with known anticholinergic activity.
