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Table 6 Ranked voting result of short-listed topics during consensus meeting

From: Improving prioritization processes for clinical practice guidelines: new methods and an evaluation from the National Heart Foundation of Australia

Short-listed topics

Priorities (scores from each Expert Committee member n = 11)

Sum of raw scoresa

Ranked priority

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

  

Ischaemic heart diseases and diseases of the coronary artery

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

55

#1

Hypercholesterolaemia

3

2

3

2

3

3

2

5

3

4

2

35

#2

Hypertension

2

3

2

5

2

2

3

4

5

2

5

31

#3

Valvular heart disease

4

4

4

3

4

4

4

2

2

3

4

27

#4

Congenital heart disease

5

5

5

4

5

5

5

3

4

5

3

17

#5

  1. aSum of raw scores: Points allocated to each short-listed topic using raw scores (top priority = five points, fifth priority = one point)