Delving into Delphis

In this issue of CJEM, we find two education papers that use the Delphi method, or at least a modification of such, to determine the outcome of their study. The Delphi is the most commonly applied consensus group method, or systematic means to measure and develop a consensus.

The modified Delphi study has become a more frequently used investigatory tool in the last several years, especially in medical education. This method can be especially useful when examining questions requiring expertise, and therefore might be applied to a variety of emergency medicine (EM) questions and problems for which uncertain empirical evidences exist.