ECMO Discharge Nursing Follow-Up Checklist from Delphi Consensus Study

83 tertiary items define a nursing follow-up checklist for adult patients discharged after ECMO therapy, developed via a two-round Delphi expert consultation in 2025. The checklist, validated with 16 participants in Wuhan, China, organizes assessment into four primary categories: physiological status, psychological status, living conditions, and social and family support.

Use Cases

• Validate the 83 tertiary items against patient readmission rates to refine checklist effectiveness.
• Analyze scoring patterns across the four primary categories (physiological, psychological, living conditions, social/family support) to identify dominant care concerns.
• Assess inter-rater reliability among nurses applying the checklist's 20 secondary items in clinical practice.
• Model the relationship between expert authority coefficients (0.93, 0.90) and consensus levels on specific tertiary items.

Strengths

• Checklist developed via a structured Delphi method with high expert response rates (86.67% and 100.00%).
• Content validity supported by high expert authority coefficients (0.93 and 0.90) and significant Kendall’s concordance coefficients (p < 0.001).
• Preliminary feasibility tested with 16 participants (6 nurses, 10 patients) reporting high satisfaction.

Limitations

• Very small sample size (16 participants) for feasibility testing limits generalizability of practical feedback.
• Data is confined to a single tertiary Grade A hospital in Wuhan City, indicating potential geographic and institutional bias.
• Dataset is a 17.2 KB document describing the checklist methodology, not a tabular dataset of patient assessments.

Provenance

Source

Yanting Zhang via figshare.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Study conducted in October-November 2025.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, based on a study conducted in late 2025.

Geography

Data collection performed at a tertiary Grade A hospital in Wuhan City, China.