Development of a Core Set of Self-Management Support Needs of Esophageal Cancer Patients: Results from a Delphi Study among Healthcare Professionals

Table 1

Criteria for consensus and stability of results.

	Criteria
Delphi process	Consensus was reached if
	≥70% of HCPs rated a topic as 7–9 on the Likert scale and ≤15% rated 1–3
	AND an i.q.r. of ≤2
Stability of results	(1) Stable category of consensus (mandatory)
	(2) Stable or decreased i.q.r.
	(3) Stable median
	(4)Nonsignificant Wilcoxon signed-rank test result
	(5) Significant Spearman’s rank correlation result