Development of a Minimum Reporting Set of Contextual Factors for Rehabilitation Studies: A Delphi Study.
Boya Nugraha, Grace Engen, Cecilie Roe and 4 others
PMID 35174867WHAT IT FOUND
Rehabilitation experts ranked human resources, context, and technical resources as the most critical provider factors to report in trials.
For service delivery, they prioritized target group, rehabilitation team, and time/intensity. These categories form a minimum reporting set.
Key findings
01Experts ranked human resources, context, and technical resources as the top three most important provider categories for minimum reporting in rehabilitation studies.
02For service delivery, the highest priority categories were target group, rehabilitation team, and aspect of time and intensity.
03The Delphi process identified 6 provider categories and 8 service delivery categories that met the relevance threshold for inclusion in the minimum reporting set.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for PTsWhat it means for OTsWhat it means for SLPs
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What it does not show
The response rate was low (33% in both rounds), and 7 responses in the second round were excluded due to ranking errors, leaving only 25 valid rankings. No occupational therapists, psychologists, or general practitioners responded in the first round, potentially biasing the perspective towards physical and rehabilitation medicine physicians. Participants in the second round were not asked to provide information on their profession or work location, so the diversity of expertise in the final rankings is unknown. The study identifies categories for reporting but does not validate whether these categories can be consistently or reliably measured in practice.
Declared interests
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The easy way to misread this
Do not assume these categories are a validated, final standard for reporting. The study proposes a minimum set based on expert opinion, but the authors state that further multi-professional workshops and testing of feasibility, validity, and reliability are necessary before this becomes a formal reporting guideline.