The multi-professional panel of clinicians included four physiotherapists, four occupational therapists (all at clinical specialist or senior level) and two consultant physicians in rehabilitation medicine.
Furthermore, 83% of the professional panel, but only 64% of the consumer panel, endorsed the statement 'The first aider should know that suicidal thoughts are temporary'.
This was compared with the opinion of a professional panel.
There were seven sixx female, one male) members of the professional panel, a GP, a psychiatrist, a nurse specialist, 2 memory nurses, a care home manager, and a third sector manager (who service provides post diagnostic support).
In a similar fashion to recruitment of the professional panel, email invitations and plain language statements were emailed to the advocacy group coordinators for the information to be forwarded on to the group members.
Overall, ratings of whether items were essential or important were similar across the consumer, employer and professional panels, with correlations of r = 0.89 between health professionals and consumers, r = 0.92 between health professionals and employers and r = 0.86 between employers and consumers.
Initially, a professional translator and a panel of three bilingual health professionals familiar with the terminology, consisting of a physiotherapist (PT), a physician, and an occupational therapist, separately translated the LLFDI from English to Swedish.
Mr. Auerbach's paper was one of three finalists judged by a panel of professional statisticians.
Under the new system, complaints would go before a panel of professional arbitrators.
In France, verdicts are rendered by a panel of professional judges, who are not political appointees but, rather, chosen meritocratically by a demanding series of exams.
