Abstract
In occupational health (OH) practice, the implementation of OH contracts for provider and commissioner usually involves several stakeholders with diverging and potentially conflicting interests. A good infrastructure is needed for the consultation – and for the discussion between the stakeholders – to avoid conflict during the implementation of OH services. This is especially true as policy, information and communication technology become increasingly complex. In this article, we suggest that the use of consensus techniques – especially ‘nominal group technique’ (NGT) – can safeguard interests and provide a practical methodology with collective participation and expert judgements…
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 36-40 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Occupational Health [at Work] |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2021 |
Keywords
- occupational health
- nominal group technique
- consensus development
Documents and Links
- Black, C. et al (2021) Establishing expert consensus in OH: challenges in OH: using a pilot nominal group technique to identify expert views for managing clinical practice
© 2021 The At Work Partnership Limited. This is the accepted author manuscript of the paper: Black, C, Shanmugam, S & Gray, H 2021, 'Establishing expert consensus in OH: challenges in OH: using a pilot nominal group technique to identify expert views for managing clinical practice', Occupational Health [at Work], vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 36-40. The final published version of the paper is available at: https://www.atworkpartnership.co.uk/journal/issue/18_2/contents/online-first-establishing-expert-consensus-in-oh