Consensus development methods are structured approaches to synthesise expert judgement in areas where empirical evidence is incomplete, inconsistent or emerging. These methods facilitate collective ...

Consensus methods lie at the heart of collaborative decision-making processes, seeking to reconcile diverse individual judgments into a single collective outcome. Such methods range from simple voting ...

A recent study concluded that the consensus on climate change is real. As stories like this usually do, it provoked a lot of outraged commentary. One of our Facebook commenters, however, responded ...

Background and Goal: The participatory research approach is an important tool of family medicine and primary health care research. However, standard consensus methods like the Delphi and nominal group ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian Shrier, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; ian.shrier{at}mcgill.ca Consensus statements have the potential to be very influential.