Table 3 Rounds fidelity: peripheral components following UK focus groups

1. Diversity

Rounds can be targeted to specific groups of staff

2. Number of panellists

Can vary, but within parameters (e.g. minimum two, maximum four)

3. Type of Rounds

Theme-based Rounds (panellists’ stories related by a theme, but about different patients), Case-based Rounds (all panellists speaking about caring for same patient) and Patient-presenter Rounds (mixed panel of staff and patient/s).

4. Duration

Can vary, but within parameters (e.g. minimum half an hour, maximum one hour)

5. Scale

Can vary, e.g. specific function within an organization, be organisation-wide, or involve multiple organizations within a locality

6. Generalised Rounds Format

Use of technology such as teleconferencing, videoconferencing

7. Frequency

Determined by organisational size (large sites should run at least nine Rounds per year and smaller sites/hospices four per year).