Cover: Selecting Performance Measures by Consensus

Selecting Performance Measures by Consensus

An Appropriate Extension of the Delphi Method?

Published in: Psychiatric Services, v. 56, no. 12, Dec. 2005, p. 1583-1584

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2005

by M. Audrey Burnam

Commentary on this issue of Psychiatric Services which describes an innovative method for choosing performance measures for early psychosis treatment services, the use of a Delphi group consensus method.

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