Characteristics of consensus panel
| Characteristic | Participants, % (N) N=41 |
| Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research (EA, EK*, CM, RS, SD*, TC*) | 14.6 (6) |
| Emergency Medical Services for Children (CM, CN, EL, HH, MGH) | 12.2 (5) |
| Quality Experts from National Professional Societies | 26.8 (11) |
| American Academy of Family Physicians (DF) | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (RP, SJ) | |
| American College of Emergency Physicians (IB, JA, KG) | |
| American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (AJ) | |
| Emergency Nurses Association (RK, SS) | |
| National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials (AV) | |
| Pediatric Trauma Society (LG) | |
| Quality Improvement Data Registries (BM) | 2.4 (1) |
| Health System Networks | 4.9 (2) |
| US Acute Care Solutions (SI) | |
| Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare (AY) | |
| Regulatory body | 2.4 (1) |
| The Joint Commission (TE) | |
| Federal partners | 4.9 (2) |
| Health Resources and Services Administration (LL) | |
| National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EC) | |
| Physician specialty | 65.9 (27) |
| Paediatric emergency medicine (CM, HH, LA, MG, RP, RS, SI, SJ) | |
| Emergency medicine (BM, CN, IB, JA, JL†, KG, KS†) | |
| Trauma (AJ) | |
| Family medicine (DF) | |
| Behavioural health* (BZ, EK, JH, KD, NU, SD, SP, SR, TC, VF) | |
| Nursing background | 19.5 (8) |
| Emergency medicine (AR†, AY, BW, CR, CT, DG, RK, SS) | |
| Trauma (CT, LG, SS) | |
| Practice in low-volume ED setting (AR†, AY, CT, DG, JL†, KG, KS†) | 17.1 (7) |
Panellist affiliations are listed in online supplemental appendix A.
*Arm 2 panellist, members of the Emergency Medicine Quality Improvement Collaborative for Kids (EMQUICK). Co-chaired by Drs Susan Duffy and Tom Chun, EMQUICK works collaboratively to assist in the development and implementation of rigorous, evidence-based quality improvement measures for paediatric mental healthcare in EDs.
†Measurement feasibility assessment in low-volume EDs.
EDs, emergency departments .