Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Pediatric Intensive Care Core Outcomes–a modified Delphi consensus process (Pediatric Intensive Care Core Outcome (PIC-CO))
Authors' conclusion
The PIC-CO set provides the first consensus-based, pragmatically implementable COS for pediatric critical care in German-speaking countries, enabling standardized long-term assessment for clinical practice and research.
Study context
- Population
- PICU survivors in German-speaking regions; experts and members of the Section of Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (SPIE)
- Participants
- 17 experts
- Outcome
- Development of a consensus-based core outcome set (PIC-CO) for outcome assessment and follow-up of PICU survivors
Methodological detailsmultiprofessional expert panel, internal consensus phase, external Delphi survey, consensus and acceptance thresholds defined a priori
- Multiprofessional expert panel
- Internal consensus phase
- External Delphi survey
- Consensus and acceptance thresholds defined a priori
Recommendations
As reported in the abstract
Final PIC-CO set
- Questionnaires evaluated
- 65
- Questionnaires submitted per domain to external survey
- 1-3
- Short-term outcomes submitted to external survey
- 11
- External survey respondents
- 46
- Questionnaires in final set
- 7
- Domains in final set
- 6
- Short-term outcomes in final set
- 11
Original publication
Pediatric Intensive Care Core Outcomes–a modified Delphi consensus process (PIC-CO). Crit Care. Published 9 March 2026. doi:10.
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