A round table meeting was held that used a modified nominal group technique, aimed at generating opinions and ideas from all stakeholders in the consensus process.
Participants: In order to allow multiprofessional collaboration and to represent different stakeholder groups, the complete consensus process with structured iterative discussion and consensus voting will consist of 25 experts with methodological, clinical, medical, functional and psychological expertise as well as patient representatives.
Guideline developers of the consensus process included stakeholders with various backgrounds (Table 2).
Multiple stakeholders were involved in the consensus process for this EGD to balance aspects of internal and external validity in the recommendations.
Although research ethics board approval will not be required for the scoping review, approval from the University of Waterloo research ethics board will be obtained for the formal consensus process and stakeholders participating in the nominal group technique will complete informed consent to participate.
OMERACT, an international informal network, strives to improve outcome measurement through a data driven, iterative consensus process involving relevant stakeholder groups.
Community Consultation The University of Washington and Group Health have also implemented a consensus process with key stakeholders to develop recommendations concerning consent, data sharing, and return of research results to subjects.
To further validate the CReDECI list, a formal consensus process with researchers and stakeholders is scheduled.
Additional iterations should be based on a consensus process between researchers and stakeholders to agree on the right questions and response categories, and establish acceptable approaches for data collection and linking to health information.
Decide which CDEs the resource will need using a committee-driven consensus process that includes all major stakeholders.
