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Table 1 Round II predetermined consensus thresholds

From: A consensus building exercise to determine research priorities for silver trauma

Round II (a) Consensus thresholds

Inclusion

≥ 50% of the votes with ‘Yes’

Exclusion

> 50% of the votes with ‘No’

Round II (b) Consensus thresholds

Inclusion

> 75% of respondents provide a positive result (four or five) on the Likert scale for all criteria.

Exclusion

> 75% of respondents provide a negative result (one or two) on the Likert scale for all criteria.

Non-consensus

When the proposed priority research question has met neither the inclusion nor exclusion consensus thresholds.