Table 2.

Highest scoring outcomes in round 3 by stakeholder group (outcomes ranked by mean score)

Patients and parents	Nurses and therapists	Doctors	Researchers
Survival	Survival	Survival	Survival
Necrotising enterocolitis	Necrotising enterocolitis	Necrotising enterocolitis	Necrotising enterocolitis
Sepsis	Harm due to treatment*	Sepsis	Sepsis
Brain injury on imaging	Sepsis	Brain injury on imaging	Visual impairment
Harm due to treatment*	Brain injury on imaging	Hearing impairment	Hearing impairment
Parental bonding with baby	Quality of life	Retinopathy of prematurity	General cognitive ability
Pain	Visual impairment	General cognitive ability	Quality of life
Suffering	Pain	Harm due to treatment*	Brain injury on imaging
Parental involvement	Suffering	Ability to walk	Breast feeding
Retinopathy of prematurity	Parental bonding with baby	General gross motor ability	General gross motor ability

*At the consensus meeting ‘Harm from medical treatment’ was redefined as ‘Adverse events’.