Figure 1.
Procedure for consensus methods.
Figure 2.
Consensus derived Cape Town ward MEWS observations chart and reporting algorithm.
Table 1.
Prototype Modified Early Warning Scoring System constructed from the literature.
Table 2.
Participants and sampling methods for consensus development of the MEWS chart.
Table 3.
Summary of the literature on consensus methods for solving problems in health care.
Table 4.
A comparison of study findings to existing literature for a local set of MEWS.