Abstract: Objective To develop an intra-hospital transport（IHT）checklist for critically ill patients in emergency department which is suitable for China. Methods Firstly，the evidences were integrated through the literature re-search. Then，Delphi method was used to evaluate the importance of the indicators through two-rounds of expert consultation among 36 experts. At last，the inter-rater reliability and the content validity were tested. Results The response rates in 2 rounds of expert consultation were 100.0%，the authority coefficient of experts were all 0.96，and the coordination coefficients were 0.197 and 0.204（P<0.001）. The final pre-IHT checklist consisted of 8 parts and 35 items. The Kappa values of the checklist were 0.727~1.000，average value was 0.880；the content validity index （S-CVI） was 0.912，and the item-level CVI （I-CVI） was 0.806~1.000. Conclusion The developed checklist based on literature research and expert argumentation is reliable，detailed and also operative for clinical application.

Key words: Emergency Service, Hospital, Critical Illness, Transportation of Patients, Nursing Audit