Table 5.

Statistics of the clinician's information from the Delphi questionnaires.

Information on clinicians	Expert selection criteria	Number of qualified clinicians in the first round of surveys (%)	Number of qualified clinicians in the second round of surveys (%)
Working years	More than 15 years	8 (44)	8 (40)
Professional ranks and titles	Deputy Chief Physician and above	18 (100)	18 (90)
Educational background	Master degree or above	17 (94)	19 (95)
Working department	Department of Encephalopathy or Neurology of TCM	18 (100)	20 (100)
Professional requirements	Internal medicine of TCM	18 (100)	20 (100)
Location area	Province with high incidence of stroke	18 (100)	20 (100)
Hospital level	Grade III Hospital of TCM	8 (44)	8 (40)