Clinical definitions and guidance
Evaluate draft definitions, clinical scenarios, recommendations, and areas of uncertainty. Record the support and unresolved concerns behind each statement.
Medical consensus research
Turn clinical uncertainty into a clear consensus study
Bring your clinical expertise. Calibrum combines purpose-built Delphi software with scoped study support to help your team evaluate expert judgments, understand disagreement, and prepare useful research outputs.
For research teams, professional societies, and healthcare organizations. Share your funding deadline, study stage, or planned consensus meeting.
What decision should your study inform?
Start with the evidence gap and the intended use of the findings. These are possible Delphi applications; your clinical and methodology leads determine whether expert consensus is appropriate for the question.
Rare disease evidence gaps
Structure specialist perspectives when published evidence is limited. Distinguish shared clinical experience from uncertain assumptions and questions needing further research.
Core outcome sets
Prioritize candidate outcomes with clinicians, researchers, patients, and caregivers. Prepare stakeholder-specific findings for the next stage of outcome selection.
Explore core outcome set workflows →Care pathways and quality indicators
Assess proposed pathways, service standards, or quality measures. Rate importance, appropriateness, and feasibility separately where the study requires it.
Research and evidence priorities
Identify which unanswered questions matter most to the panel. Compare stakeholder priorities and document where views align or differ.
Health economic model assumptions
Elicit expert views on treatment pathways, resource use, or other assumptions your health economists need to examine. Agree on how uncertainty will be captured and reported.
Published use of the Surveylet platform
From panel input to published research
These publications show how independent research teams used Surveylet within their consensus studies. They demonstrate software use, rather than a claim that Calibrum designed the entire study or delivered every service.
CLN2 disease guidance
Research question: How should experts assess proposed guidance on diagnosis, treatment, and management?
Surveylet’s role: Anonymous voting to validate guideline statements with healthcare professionals.
Read the published study →COHESION neonatal encephalopathy
Research question: Which outcomes should treatment studies consistently measure and report?
Surveylet’s role: Multi-round and Real-Time Delphi surveys with parent, clinician, and researcher input. The wider study established seven core outcomes.
Read the published study →AO Spine RECODE-DCM
Research question: What outcomes and data elements should degenerative cervical myelopathy research collect?
Surveylet’s role: Two-round Delphi prioritization, with group-specific feedback and each participant’s previous rating available for reconsideration.
Read the published study →Choose the feedback process your study needs
Surveylet supports different study formats within a dedicated Delphi environment. The protocol should specify when feedback becomes available, when panelists may revise ratings, and how results will be assessed.
Multi-round Delphi
Use scheduled questionnaire rounds with controlled feedback between stages. Define how items are retained, revised, or removed and how the panel is followed across rounds.
Explore multi-round study design →Real-Time Delphi
Let panelists review anonymized group feedback and reconsider ratings during the active survey period. Use planned snapshots to document study stages and changes over time.
Explore Real-Time Delphi →Online ratings plus a live meeting
Collect independent ratings before a focused discussion of unresolved items. A facilitated meeting and its voting rules are agreed separately from the online feedback process.
Explore a hybrid Delphi workflow →For structured clinical scenario assessment, explore our RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method guidance. The method, rating dimensions, and disagreement rules should be confirmed before configuration.
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 evidence gap, intended audience, 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 methodological support, questionnaire preparation, stakeholder groups, feedback, consensus criteria, stopping rules, and analysis planning. Configure and test the approved Surveylet workflow.
Panel coordination and study delivery
Manage agreed participant communications, monitor response progress, and support feedback and re-rating. Your team provides access to the relevant expert community; recruitment responsibilities and any panelist compensation arrangements are confirmed in the scope.
Analysis and reporting
Interpret agreement, disagreement, changes across rounds, participation, and stakeholder differences against the prespecified plan. Prepare the agreed tables, figures, report, and methods documentation.
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.
Agree on the output before the study begins
A steering committee, consensus meeting, and manuscript may need different materials. Name the intended audience and deliverables in the proposal.
Study and round records
An approved workflow, participation summaries, analysis-ready exports, and a record of item revisions, feedback, and study decisions.
Consensus report or meeting brief
Agreed findings, unresolved questions, stakeholder differences, and tables or figures for the research team. A meeting brief can focus discussion on items requiring attention.
Explore analysis and reporting →Publication support materials
Methods and results support, revised analyses, tables, figures, or reviewer-response assistance when commissioned. Manuscript support is identified separately from routine platform assistance.
Explore manuscript support →For transparent reporting, discuss which guidance fits your study, such as CREDES, ACCORD, or COS-STAR. Our design and reporting checklist helps your team identify what to plan and retain.
Your team retains scientific leadership
Your investigators provide clinical expertise and approve the protocol, questionnaire, interpretation, and final research outputs. Calibrum’s methodological and delivery responsibilities are defined in the proposal.
A practical scope for your project
Confirm panel size, questionnaire length, rounds, meetings, reporting, review points, and institutional requirements. Evidence reviews, specialist clinical or health economic work, recruitment, and manuscript support are specified when included.
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 implementation, study administration, analysis, and reporting. An initial review helps establish what is feasible with the available materials and data. You can also use Surveylet with your own methodology team.
Is this the same as Complete Survey Care?
Complete Survey Care provides hands-on Surveylet implementation and operational assistance within purchased hours. A managed medical consensus engagement can include separately scoped methodological, analysis, reporting, or meeting support. Your proposal identifies the services included.
Do you supply the clinical experts?
Your team normally identifies the expert community and approves eligibility and stakeholder representation. Any recruitment assistance, external specialist involvement, or compensation administration must be agreed in the proposal.
Can the study support an economic model or an evidence submission?
A Delphi can capture expert judgments about assumptions or evidence gaps when appropriate. Your health economics, regulatory, or evidence team determines how those findings can be used and what supporting documentation is required. We scope the Delphi component and its outputs around that need.
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, intended use of the results, 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.
Start with your research question
Tell us which decision or evidence gap your Delphi should address, what your team will handle, and where you need support. We will use that information to define a practical scope and budget.
Request a study scope and budget