Identifying neonatal transport research priorities: a modified Delphi consensus (2024)

1. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0338-1833Aarti Mistry1,
2. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8644-5232Andrew Leslie1,2,
3. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-4227Shalini Ojha1,
4. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4989-8697Don Sharkey1,2
5. The UK Neonatal Transport Research Collaborative (UK-NTRC)

1. ¹Centre for Perinatal Research (CePR), School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2. ²UK-Neonatal Transport Research Collaborative (UK-NTRC), UK-Neonatal Transport Group, Nottingham, UK

1. Correspondence to Professor Don Sharkey, Centre for Perinatal Research (CePR), School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; don.sharkey{at}nottingham.ac.uk

• Neonatology
• Qualitative research
• Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
• Health services research

• Neonatology
• Qualitative research
• Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
• Health services research

Footnotes

• X @AartiMistry5, @shaliniojha7, @DrDonSharkey

• Collaborators On behalf of the UK-Neonatal Transport Research Collaborative (UK-NTRC), an affiliated group of the UK-Neonatal Transport Group (UK-NTG): Sarah Davidson, Allan Jackson, Samantha O'Hare, Santosh Pattnayak, Catherine Rutherford, Nandiran Ratnaval, Rob Tinnion, Alison Walker.

  Collaborators’ affiliations are as follows: SONeT, University Hospitals Southampton NHS

  Foundation Trust; Scottish Specialist Transport and Retrieval Service, Princess Royal Maternity, Glasgow; Paediatric and Neonatal Decision support and Retrieval service (PaNDR), Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Kent Surrey and Sussex Neonatal Transport Service, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Kent; KIDS-Neonatal Transfer Service; London Neonatal Transport Service, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London; Northern Neonatal Transport Service; Northern Ireland Specialist Transport and Retrieval.

• Contributors AM, DS, SO conceptualised and formulated the study protocol. AM led the implementation and conducted each stage of study and the data analysis. The first draft of manuscript was written by AM, and reviewed and edited by AL, SO and DS. All authors approved the final version for publication. DS is the guarantor of the study.

• Funding AM was part of the project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) i4i programme (II-LA-0715-20003) and DS was a co-investigator on the same award. DS is partly funded by the NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Cooperative. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

• Competing interests DS is the research lead for the UK-NTG and the UK-NTRC.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer-reviewed.

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