Table 1.

Most important treatment and monitoring items as ranked by the practitioner and expert panels according to their mean score on the 5‐point Likert scale

Practitioner panel	Rank	Expert panel
Treatment items
Antibiotics Mean = 4.90, SD = 0.58	1	Antibiotics Mean = 5.00, SD = 0.00
Intravenous access Mean = 4.83, SD = 0.69	2	Intravenous access Mean = 5.00, SD = 0.00
Intravenous fluids Mean = 4.71, SD = 0.76	3	Intravenous fluids Mean = 4.64, SD = 0.48
Source identification and control Mean = 4.56, SD = 0.82	4	Location Mean = 4.36, SD = 0.64
Location Mean = 4.39, SD = 0.97	5	Source identification and control Mean = 4.09, SD = 1.16
Monitoring items
Blood pressure Mean = 4.85, SD = 0.58	1	Respiratory rate and heart rate Mean = 4.82, SD = 0.39
Respiratory rate and heart rate Mean = 4.80, SD = 0.70	2	Conscious level Mean = 4.82, SD = 0.39
Urine output Mean = 4.73, SD = 0.69	3	Urine output Mean = 4.64, SD = 0.48
Conscious level Mean = 4.71, SD = 0.71	4	Monitoring of baby Mean = 4.64, SD = 0.48
Temperature Mean = 4.65, SD = 0.75	5	Blood pressure Mean = 4.55, SD = 0.66
Monitoring of baby Mean = 4.46, SD = 0.94	6	Temperature Mean = 4.27, SD = 0.96
Oxygen saturations Mean = 4.38, SD = 1.00	7	Oxygen saturations Mean = 4.27, SD = 0.96

SD, standard deviation.