Table 1.
Composition of monitoring, advisory and consensus expert groups
| Location | Date | Expert group total | Practising cliniciansa | Researchers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical researchersb | Non-clinical researchersc | Engineersd | ||||
| Ideas generation rounds | ||||||
| Brussels | 25/11/2011 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Southampton | 19/03/2012 | 41 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 26 |
| Brussels | 28/04/2012 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Design and piloting of the questionnaire meetings | ||||||
| Brussels | 07/11/2012 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Brussels | 08/11/2012 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Delphi rounds | ||||||
| Madrid(Round 1) | 13/11/2012 | 34 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 2 |
| Bucharest (Round 2) | 26/03/2013 | 35 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Enschede (Round 3) | 08/04/2013 | 71 | 12 | 14 | 27 | 18 |
| Pisa (Round 4) | 10/05/2013 | 43 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| San Sebastian (Round 5) | 05/06/2013 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| Total for Delphi rounds | 208 | 60 | 35 | 77 | 35 | |
aPractising clinicians defined as those who treat patients as the focus of their daily work (e.g., therapists, medical doctors, etc.)
bClinical researchers defined as clinicians whose focus is on research
cNon-clinical researchers defined as researchers with no healthcare qualification (e.g. movement scientists)
dEngineers defined as technology developers or engineers