Medical consensus research

A dedicated partner for your medical Delphi study

Bring your clinical expertise. Calibrum helps you plan the consensus process, coordinate delivery, and prepare clear results for your research team.

Choose a managed engagement across the study or focused support where your team needs it most.

Request a study scope and budget

Planning a grant application? Share your submission date and proposed Delphi work package.

Keep the research moving with a clear plan

A medical consensus study involves more than collecting ratings. Panel coordination, feedback, analysis, and reporting all need time and ownership. We agree on the work, responsibilities, and deliverables before the study begins.

Clarify the process

Plan rating scales, feedback, consensus criteria, and reporting needs so your team can explain how the study was conducted.

Coordinate the delivery

Get hands-on support with Surveylet setup, testing, invitations, reminders, participation monitoring, and agreed study stages.

Make the findings usable

Bring together agreement, disagreement, and stakeholder perspectives in the analyses and reporting materials specified for your project.

Support from planning through reporting

Start before a funding application, bring an existing protocol, or ask for help with an active study. Your proposal defines which stages are included.

Study planning and budgeting
Define the Delphi work package, expected panel, timeline, and outputs. Request an itemized estimate to inform your project plan or funding application.
Protocol and survey preparation
Agree on the level of methodological support, questionnaire preparation, stakeholder grouping, feedback, and analysis planning. Configure and test the approved workflow in Surveylet.
Panel coordination and study delivery
Manage the agreed participant communications, monitor response progress, and support feedback and re-rating. Plan a facilitated meeting separately where the study calls for one.
Analysis and reporting
Summarize findings against the agreed criteria. Specify the tables, figures, consensus report, stakeholder comparisons, and methods documentation your team needs.
Publication support when required
Scope additional help with methods and results text, revised analyses, tables, figures, or reviewer requests. Your investigators retain authorship decisions and approve the final interpretation.

Built around the research question

The study design determines the approach. Support can include conventional Delphi rounds, Real-Time Delphi, or a planned combination of online ratings and a facilitated consensus meeting.

Core outcome sets

Coordinate stakeholder ratings of candidate outcomes and prepare findings for the next stage of outcome selection.

Clinical consensus projects

Structure expert assessment of draft statements, definitions, or clinical scenarios, with documented feedback and reconsideration.

Multispecialty panels

Organize input from clinicians, researchers, patients, and other relevant groups, with responsibilities and participation arrangements agreed in advance.

Relevant research experience

See how researchers have used Surveylet

Explore published medical studies using Surveylet and ask about examples relevant to your project.

Published use of the platform does not mean Calibrum provided every research service. We will distinguish software use from the support delivered when discussing examples.

Explore medical research references

Your team retains scientific leadership

Your investigators provide clinical expertise and approve the protocol, content, interpretation, and final research outputs.

Calibrum’s responsibilities are defined in the proposal. Recruitment, evidence reviews, live meetings, methodological consultancy, and manuscript support are specified when included.

Know what you are commissioning

A clear scope helps you budget and coordinate the work with your institution.

Defined services and deliverables, with platform access and professional support identified.
Assumptions about panel size, questionnaire length, rounds, meetings, and reporting.
Responsibilities, review points, and an agreed schedule.
A process for additional revisions, rounds, or changed requirements.
Information to support your institution’s procurement and security review.

Planning your engagement

Can we include Calibrum in a grant budget?

Yes. Share the proposed study, expected panel, timeframe, required outputs, and application deadline so we can prepare a scoped estimate. Detailed proposal development or protocol work can be discussed separately. Any appointment remains subject to your institution’s purchasing requirements.

What if we already have a protocol or an active study?

We can discuss support for the stages you need, including implementation, study administration, analysis, and reporting. An initial review helps establish what is feasible with the available materials and data.

Is this the same as Complete Survey Care?

Complete Survey Care provides hands-on Surveylet implementation and operational assistance. A managed medical consensus engagement can include separately scoped methodological, analysis, reporting, or meeting support. Your proposal identifies the services included.

Can a live consensus meeting be part of the study?

Yes. A meeting can be scoped alongside online ratings where it fits the research design. Preparation, facilitation, technical support, and post-session reporting are agreed separately. The process records both agreement and unresolved questions.

What should we send to get started?

Share your research objective, current study stage, draft protocol or questionnaire if available, stakeholder groups, expected panel size, target dates, and required outputs. Include any funding deadline, planned meeting, or institutional requirements you already know about.

Plan the support your study needs

Tell us what you want to achieve, what your team will handle, and where you need help. We will use that information to define a practical scope and budget.