Creating Consensus Educational Goals for Pediatric Sepsis via Multicenter Modified Delphi.

ABSTRACT: Clinical care of pediatric sepsis depends on early recognition and basic initial steps and thus focused educational materials for providers in these early phases of care are needed. The authors sought to identify educational goals and establish a framework for those materials. The authors conducted a Delphi process to create consensus educational goals for the recognition and treatment of pediatric sepsis, focused on the needs of emergency and acute care providers. Experts in pediatric sepsis quality improvement and education were recruited. In each round the experts determined if a particular goal was appropriate for inclusion and provided edits if required. Free-text responses and additional goals were accepted. The primary author deidentified and collated the responses and distributed a

SUBMITTER: Woods JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194036 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature