The Delphi platformfor medical consensus research and live group decision-making
Run Delphi surveys for expert consensus with real-time feedback or traditional multi-round studies. Add scoped support for study delivery, analysis, and reporting.
Explore our Delphi research guides
Surveylet helps healthcare, academic, policy, and professional teams run rigorous Delphi and Real-Time Delphi studies—and use structured, anonymized feedback to support decisions during conferences, workshops, advisory boards, and leadership meetings. Planning a clinical expert panel, rare disease consensus project, or core outcome set? Explore our medical consensus research services and published study examples.
What is a Delphi survey?
A Delphi survey collects judgments from a selected panel, returns summarized group feedback, and lets participants reconsider their responses. It is part of a structured Delphi study that can identify agreement, priorities, and unresolved differences. Surveylet supports both modified Delphi studies with planned rounds and Real-Time Delphi with feedback during the active survey period.
Structure the evidence gap
Frame clinical uncertainty, stakeholder priorities, quality indicators, treatment standards, or research questions in a transparent Delphi process.
Engage expert panels
Collect structured ratings, comments, revisions, and feedback from clinicians, researchers, patients, policy leaders, and other stakeholders.
Report consensus clearly
Export round-by-round results for steering committees, consensus summaries, manuscripts, supplementary materials, and implementation planning.
Practical guides for better Delphi studies
Explore research-focused articles on designing your Delphi study, selecting expert panels, setting consensus rules, and reporting results clearly. Start with these practical guides, or browse the complete Delphi Blog.
Where Bias Enters a Delphi Study
Safeguards for expert-panel selection, statement wording, feedback, attrition, and analysis.
What Should You Report in a Delphi Study?
A practical checklist of study design, participant flow, consensus rules, rounds, and results.
How Many Experts Does a Delphi Study Need?
Choose and justify panel size around the research question, expertise, representation, and attrition.
Used in published Delphi and consensus research
Surveylet and Calibrum have been identified in peer-reviewed publications and public project records involving neonatal encephalopathy, emergency nursing, trauma research, cancer care, urinary tract infection, respiratory medicine, stillbirth, neonatal sepsis, and other health research areas. These projects show how Delphi methods can turn expert judgment into structured, citable consensus evidence.
COHESION Neonatal Encephalopathy
A medical core outcome set study for neonatal encephalopathy treatment that explicitly identifies Calibrum / Surveylet software.
Emergency Nursing Pain Management
A methodological paper on applying real-time Delphi methods in emergency nursing and pain-management survey development.
National Trauma Research Repository
Five 2026 peer-reviewed Delphi papers identify Surveylet in trauma-research work on data standards, from prehospital and hospital care to outcomes and social determinants.
Choose software, study support, or a live consensus session
Surveylet is Calibrum’s Delphi software platform. Calibrum also provides medical consensus research services, core outcome set study support, and facilitated live consensus sessions. Choose software access, help with a defined study stage, or support from planning through analysis and reporting.
Surveylet Platform
Purpose-built software for traditional multi-round Delphi and real-time Delphi surveys.
- Rating scales, comments, and structured feedback
- Expert-panel and participant management
- Consensus tracking and round-by-round exports
- Core outcome set and medical consensus workflows
Turn-Key Delphi Services
Study-support services for teams that want methodology, administration, analysis, and reporting help.
- Protocol and Delphi design planning
- Questionnaire and Likert-scale refinement
- Surveylet setup, testing, and launch
- Round-by-round consensus summaries and reporting support
Live Consensus Sessions
Professionally planned and facilitated Real-Time Delphi sessions for conferences, workshops, advisory boards, committees, and leadership meetings.
- Decision-question and rating-scale preparation
- Independent, anonymized participant input
- Real-time group feedback and reconsideration
- Live monitoring and post-session results summary
What kind of Delphi study are you planning?
Delphi studies are useful when evidence, expertise, and stakeholder priorities need to come together in a structured and transparent way — especially when teams need credible consensus outputs for publications, guidelines, recommendations, or program decisions.
Core Outcome Sets
Prioritize outcomes that should be measured and reported consistently.
Medical Consensus
Develop expert consensus on clinical definitions, recommendations, standards, and quality indicators.
Research Priorities
Rank gaps, questions, and priorities for future studies, funders, and research networks.
Live Consensus Sessions
Use Surveylet Real-Time Delphi to help a conference, workshop, committee, or advisory board evaluate options and make a structured decision during the meeting.
Delphi studies beyond medical research
Medical and public health projects are an important part of Surveylet’s work, but Delphi methods are also useful in non-medical settings where expert judgment, stakeholder input, forecasting, prioritization, or a fair and efficient live group decision is needed.
Education and workforce planning
Support curriculum design, competency frameworks, professional standards, training priorities, and workforce development studies.
Policy and public-sector consensus
Collect structured input from experts, agencies, communities, and stakeholders to prioritize options, risks, and implementation criteria.
Technology, strategy, and forecasting
Use Delphi methods to evaluate future scenarios, product criteria, emerging trends, organizational priorities, and strategic decisions.
Conferences and collaborative decisions
Give every participant a structured voice, reduce the influence of hierarchy or dominant speakers, and identify agreement, disagreement, and priorities within the meeting schedule.
Planning a Delphi study or a live group decision-making session?
Whether you need a specialized Delphi platform, a full-service partner to design and report a consensus study, or a professionally supported live session for a conference or meeting, Calibrum can help.