Development of a Core Critical Care Data Dictionary With Common Data Elements to Characterize Critical Illness and Injuries Using a Modified Delphi Method.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop the first core Critical Care Data Dictionary (C2D2) with common data elements (CDEs) to characterize critical illness and injuries.

Design

Group consensus process using modified Delphi approach.

Setting

Electronic surveys and in-person meetings.

Subjects

A multidisciplinary workgroup of clinicians and researchers with expertise in the care of the critically ill and injured.

Interventions

The Delphi process was divided into domain and CDE portions with each composed of two item generation rounds and one item reduction/refinement rounds. Two in-person meetings augmented this process to facilitate review and consideration of the domains and by panel members. The final set of domains and CDEs was then reviewed by the group to meet the c

SUBMITTER: Murphy DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12047641 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature