1 International working group | To ensure that study and its aims are promoted in regions from where the study team wish to target recruitment. |
2 Patient and public involvement | To ensure that the patient perspective is represented. |
3 Who should undertake the translation work? | Deciding whether to employ professionally paid services or identify clinically trained individuals to undertake the translations. |
4 Milestone and timeline planning | Providing a pre-agreed timetable for translation work and checks ahead of recruitment to the Delphi survey. |
5 Recruitment and retention targets | Planning how long to keep Delphi survey rounds open to ensure an appropriate number of participants have been recruited. |
6 Paper and Internet-based survey versions | Giving stakeholders without easy access to the Internet an opportunity to participate in the study. |
7 Measures to maximise recruitment | Dissemination strategy |
Local recruitment | |
Support from stakeholder group and research networks | |
Collaborations | |
Personalised e-mails | |
Social media and multimedia | |
8 Ethical approval | Identifying what type of approvals are required as these vary between regions. |
9 Financial planning | Ensuring that a robust plan for resource allocation is made in advance. |