Nursing Follow-up Checklist for Adult ECMO Discharge Patients

A Delphi consensus study developed a nursing follow-up checklist for adult patients discharged after ECMO therapy. The final checklist contains 4 primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 tertiary items. The study involved expert consultations and a feasibility test with 6 nurses and 10 patients from a hospital in Wuhan, China.

Use Cases

• Validate the 83 tertiary items in the checklist for clinical assessment tool development.
• Analyze the four primary categories—physiological status, psychological status, living conditions, and social and family support—for patient outcome research.
• Apply the Delphi method results, including expert authority coefficients of 0.93 and 0.90, to inform healthcare protocol design.
• Use the checklist's 20 secondary items to structure nursing follow-up data collection for ECMO survivors.

Strengths

• Checklist was developed through a structured Delphi method with two rounds achieving 86.67% and 100% expert response rates.
• Final checklist is detailed with 4 primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 specific tertiary items.
• Feasibility was preliminarily tested with a sample of 6 nurses and 10 patients.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 42.8 KB document describing the checklist, not a tabular dataset of patient records for direct analysis.
• Feasibility test sample size is small, with only 16 total participants (6 nurses, 10 patients).
• Geographic scope is limited to a single tertiary hospital in Wuhan, China.

Provenance

Source

Yanting Zhang via figshare

Collection Method

Developed via literature review, semi-structured interviews, group discussions, and two rounds of Delphi expert consultation.

Time Range

Study conducted in October and November 2025.

Freshness

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Geography

Data collection focused on a tertiary Grade A hospital in Wuhan City, China.