Delphi Technique in Health Sciences: A Map

In health sciences, the Delphi technique is primarily used by researchers when the available knowledge is incomplete or subject to uncertainty and other methods that provide higher levels of evidence cannot be used. The aim is to collect expert-based judgments and often to use them to find identifya consensus. In this map, wWe provide an overview of the fields of application for Delphi techniques in health sciences in this map and discuss the processes used and the quality of the findings. We use systematic reviews of Delphi techniques for the map, summarize their findings and examine them from a methodological perspective.

Twelve systematic reviews of Delphi techniques from different sectors of the health sciences were identified and systematically analyzed.