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Table 1 Composition of monitoring, advisory and consensus expert groups

From: Evaluation of upper extremity neurorehabilitation using technology: a European Delphi consensus study within the EU COST Action Network on Robotics for Neurorehabilitation

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

  1. aPractising clinicians defined as those who treat patients as the focus of their daily work (e.g., therapists, medical doctors, etc.)
  2. bClinical researchers defined as clinicians whose focus is on research
  3. cNon-clinical researchers defined as researchers with no healthcare qualification (e.g. movement scientists)
  4. dEngineers defined as technology developers or engineers