Nursing Follow-Up Checklist for Adult ECMO Discharge Patients

83 tertiary items across four primary categories define a nursing follow-up checklist for adult patients discharged after ECMO therapy. The checklist was developed via a Delphi consensus study with expert authority coefficients of 0.93 and 0.90 and tested for feasibility with 16 participants. Yanting Zhang authored this study, with results published in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Validate the checklist's 20 secondary items against clinical outcomes to assess its predictive utility for patient readmission.
• Analyze the weighting and consensus scores among the 83 tertiary items to identify core versus peripheral care priorities.
• Use the four primary categories—physiological status, psychological status, living conditions, and social and family support—to structure electronic health record data for discharged ECMO patients.
• Benchmark local nursing protocols against the Delphi-derived 83-item checklist to identify care gaps.

Strengths

• Checklist development involved two rounds of Delphi expert consultation with high response rates of 86.67% and 100.00%.
• Expert authority coefficients were 0.93 and 0.90, indicating high credibility in the consensus process.
• The final checklist is structured with four primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 detailed tertiary items.

Limitations

• Feasibility testing was conducted with a very small, convenience sample of only six nurses and ten patients from a single hospital in Wuhan.
• The data is contained in a 101.6 KB DOCX file, presenting the checklist document rather than a structured, tabular dataset for direct analysis.
• The geographic scope is limited to a single tertiary Grade A hospital in Wuhan City, China, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Yanting Zhang, via figshare.

Collection Method

Developed through literature review, semi-structured interviews, group discussions, and two rounds of Delphi expert consultation in October 2025.

Time Range

Study conducted in 2025.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Wuhan City, China.