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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Jan;127(1):49–58. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001195

Table 2.

Delphi second round: top 10 outcomes for each stakeholder Group.

Total group
(n=174)
Parents
(n=25)
Midwives
(n=25)
Obstetricians
(n=55)
Neonatologists
(n=34)
Researchers
(n=35)
Gestational age at delivery (93%) Maternal mortality (76%) Gestational age at delivery (92%) Gestational age at delivery (100%) Gestational age at delivery (91%) Gestational age at delivery (97%)
Offspring mortality (81%) Gestational age at delivery (72%) Offspring mortality (76%) Offspring mortality (89%) Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (79%) Offspring mortality (85%)
Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (72%) Offspring mortality (72%) Maternal infection (64%) Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (85%) Offspring mortality (71%) Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (82%)
Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (72%) Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (68%) Respiratory morbidity (60%) Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (80%) Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (68%) Respiratory morbidity (74%)
Respiratory morbidity (67%) Offspring infection (68% Offspring infection (56%) Respiratory morbidity (80%) Maternal mortality (59%) Maternal mortality (62%)
Maternal mortality (60%) Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (60%) Prelabor rupture of membranes (56%) Maternal mortality (59%) Birthweight (56%)* Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (56%)
Maternal infection (55%) Respiratory morbidity (56%) Late neurodevelopmental morbidity (52%) Maternal infection (57%) Respiratory morbidity (53%) Mode of delivery (53%)+
Offspring infection (52%) Maternal infection (56%) Maternal mortality (48%) Offspring infection (57%) Maternal infection (53%) Harm (53%)
Birthweight (50%)* Gastro-intestinal morbidity (44%) Harm (48%) Birthweight (57%)* Health service utilization offspring (41%)* Birthweight (50%)*
Prelabor rupture of membranes (43%) Circulatory morbidity (44%)* Early neurodevelopmental morbidity (44%) Mode of delivery (56%)+ Mode of delivery (38%)+ Prelabor rupture of membranes (50%)

All outcomes are also in the consensus ‘in’ list of all stakeholder groups, except for:

*

Outcome also in consensus ‘in’ list by one or more stakeholder groups.

+

Outcome in ‘no’ consensus list by all stakeholder groups.