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. 2023 Jun 24;78(6):1966–1986. doi: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000000520

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Summary of the Delphi process. The top section depicts the iterative sampling approach employed to generate a large, diverse Delphi panel (267 experts invited and 225 participated across the 4 rounds). The 2 co-chairs, from AASLD and EASL, respectively, convened representatives from several other large pan-national societies and patient advocacy organisations to form the Steering Committee. This group identified 6 topics/working groups that led the development of a preliminary set of consensus statements, which were reviewed by the larger steering committee and subsequently revised. The co-chairs elicited nominations for Delphi panel members from a diverse group of liver organisations. The bottom section depicts the 4 survey rounds (R1–R4) of data collection from the full Delphi panel, which involved panelists’ indicating their level of agreement/disagreement (ie, consensus) with statements in each survey round, as well as the ability to provide comments in open-ended text boxes. Draft consensus statements were revised based on panelists’ comments for subsequent rounds. Two large expert convenings were held following R2 and R3 to permit group discussion of issues raised from the survey data collection components of the Delphi methodology. Abbreviations: AASLD, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases; ALEH, Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Hígado (Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver); AMAGE, African Middle East Association of Gastroenterology; APASL, Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver; EASL, European Association for the Study of the Liver; GI, gastrointestinal; INASL,Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver; RR, response rate; SAASL, South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver; TASL, Taiwan Association for the Study of the Liver.