ECMO Discharge Nursing Follow-Up Checklist Delphi Study

A 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. Yanting Zhang authored the study, which was conducted in October-November 2025.

Use Cases

• Validate the checklist's 4 primary categories (physiological status, psychological status, living conditions, social and family support) for clinical assessment tool development.
• Analyze the 83 tertiary items to identify core nursing indicators for post ECMO patient monitoring protocols.
• Use the expert authority coefficients (0.93 and 0.90) and Kendall’s concordance coefficients to benchmark methodological rigor for similar Delphi studies in healthcare.

Strengths

• Checklist developed through a structured Delphi method with two consultation rounds achieving 86.67% and 100.00% expert response rates.
• High expert authority coefficients of 0.93 and 0.90 indicate strong panel credibility.
• Checklist structure is detailed with 4 primary categories, 20 secondary items, and 83 specific tertiary items for comprehensive assessment.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 95.7 KB document describing the checklist's development, not a structured data table of patient records or checklist responses.
• Feasibility testing involved a small, convenience sample of only 6 nurses and 10 patients from a single hospital in Wuhan, limiting generalizability.
• Data represents the checklist tool itself and its validation metrics, not longitudinal patient outcomes or applied checklist data.

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-November 2025.

Freshness

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

Geography

Research conducted at a tertiary Grade A hospital in Wuhan City, China.