Nursing Follow-up Checklist for Adult ECMO Discharge Patients

A 2025 Delphi consensus study developed a nursing follow-up checklist for adult patients discharged after ECMO therapy. The checklist contains 4 primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 tertiary items. It was tested for feasibility with six nurses and ten patients at a tertiary hospital in Wuhan, China.

Use Cases

• Validate the 83 tertiary checklist items for content and clinical relevance in post-ECMO care protocols.
• Analyze the four primary categories (physiological status, psychological status, living conditions, social and family support) to structure nursing assessment frameworks.
• Apply the Delphi method results, including expert authority coefficients of 0.93 and 0.90, to inform similar medical tool development processes.

Strengths

• Checklist developed via a structured Delphi method with high expert response rates (86.67% and 100.00%).
• Content validity supported by expert authority coefficients of 0.93 and 0.90 and statistically significant Kendall’s concordance coefficients.
• Checklist structure is detailed with 4 primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 tertiary items for comprehensive assessment.

Limitations

• Dataset is a 58.9 KB document describing the checklist's development, not a tabular dataset of patient records for direct analysis.
• Feasibility testing involved a very small sample size of only six nurses and ten patients.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single tertiary hospital in Wuhan, China.

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.