Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 5. Group processes

Table 1 Characteristics of various consensus development methods (from Murphy et al. [12])

Consensus development method	Mailed questionnaires	Private decisions elicited	Formal feedback of group choices	Face-to-face contact	Interaction structured	Aggregation method
Informal	No	No	No	Yes	No	Implicit
Delphi method	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Explicit
NGT	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Explicit
RAND version	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Explicit
Consensus development conference	No	No	No	Yes	No	Implicit
Other methods
Staticised group	No	Yes	No	No	-	Explicit
Social judgement analysis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Implicit
Structured discussion	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Implicit

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