Ellen L. Hughes

ORCID: 0000-0003-2012-0037
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Research Areas
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Open Group
2023

Background In biomedical research, it is often desirable to seek consensus among individuals who have differing perspectives and experience. This important when evidence emerging, inconsistent, limited, or absent. Even research abundant, clinical recommendations, policy decisions, priority-setting may still require agreement from multiple, sometimes ideologically opposed parties. Despite their prominence influence on key methods are poorly reported. Our aim was develop the first reporting...

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004326 article EN cc-by PLoS Medicine 2024-01-23

Abstract Background Structured, systematic methods to formulate consensus recommendations, such as the Delphi process or nominal group technique, among others, provide opportunity harness knowledge of experts support clinical decision making in areas uncertainty. They are widely used biomedical research, particular where disease characteristics resource limitations mean that high-quality evidence generation is difficult. However, poor reporting reach a – for example, not clearly explaining...

10.1186/s41073-022-00122-0 article EN cc-by Research Integrity and Peer Review 2022-06-07

Abstract Background In biomedical research, it is often desirable to seek consensus among individuals who have differing perspectives and experience. This important when evidence emerging, inconsistent, limited or absent. Even research abundant, clinical recommendations, policy decisions priority-setting may still require agreement from multiple, sometimes ideologically opposed parties. Despite their prominence influence on key decisions, methods are poorly reported. We aimed develop the...

10.1101/2023.08.22.23294261 preprint EN medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-08-24
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