Table 2.

Agreement Between Experts During the Delphi Process

Round	Ordinal Scale a	LCL	UCL	Per Priority Group	LCL	UCL
1	0.38	0.34	0.41	0.34	0.31	0.37
2	0.27	0.24	0.31	0.35	0.32	0.38
3	0.40	0.37	0.43	0.35	0.32	0.38
4	0.34	0.30	0.37	0.32	0.28	0.35

Abbreviations: LCL, lower 95% confidence limit; UCL, upper 95% confidence limit.

There were 11 raters and agreement was measured using the Krippendorff alpha.

^a “Ordinal scale” refers to the scale of 0 to 9 used to rate priority of surgery and “Per Priority Group” refers to the low‐priority, medium‐priority, and high‐priority groups related to the scoring scale.