Joint international consensus statement on crowdsourcing challenge contests in health and medicine: results of a modified Delphi process.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop a consensus statement to provide advice on designing, implementing and evaluating crowdsourcing challenge contests in public health and medical contexts.

Design

Modified Delphi using three rounds of survey questionnaires and one consensus workshop.

Setting

Uganda for face-to-face consensus activities, global for online survey questionnaires.

Participants

A multidisciplinary expert panel was convened at a consensus-development conference in Uganda and included 21 researchers with experience leading challenge contests, five public health sector workers, and nine Ugandan end users. An online survey was sent to 140 corresponding authors of previously published articles that had used crowdsourcing methods.

Results

A subgroup of expert pa

SUBMITTER: Han L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8573649 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature