Developing a set of consensus indicators to support maternity service quality improvement: using Core Outcome Set methodology including a Delphi process.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a core metric set to monitor the quality of maternity care.

Design

Delphi process followed by a face-to-face consensus meeting.

Setting

English maternity units.

Population

Three representative expert panels: service designers, providers and users.

Main outcome measures

Maternity care metrics judged important by participants.

Methods

Participants were asked to complete a two-phase Delphi process, scoring metrics from existing local maternity dashboards. A consensus meeting discussed the results and re-scored the metrics.

Results

In all, 125 distinct metrics across six domains were identified from existing dashboards. Following the consensus meeting, 14 metrics met the inclusion criteria for the final core set: smoking ra

SUBMITTER: Bunch KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220866 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature