The Use of an Early Alert System to Improve Compliance with Sepsis Bundles and to Assess Impact on Mortality

Table 1

Patient characteristics between Code SMART and Non-Code SMART Groups.

	Code Smart	Non-Code Smart	P
	𝑁=34	𝑁=24
Mean (SD) Age (years)	70 (2.26)	61 (3.41)	.03
Ethnicity
Caucasian	1 (3%)	3 (13%)	.16
African American	28 (82%)	17 (71%)	.31
Hispanic	3 (9%)	2 (8%)	.95
Other	2 (6%)	2 (8%)	.73
Gender (females)	15 (44%)	16 (67%)	.42
Mean (SD) MEDS	11.44 (.94)	9.96 (1.13)	.32
Sepsis
Urinary tract infection	10 (29%)	7 (29%)	.80
Pneumonia	18 (53%)	8 (33%)	.25
Cultures-positive
Blood	13 (38%)	8 (33%)	.96
Urine	16 (47%)	7 (29%)	.26
Shock present	25 (74%)	15 (63%)	.38
Number of organs involved
0	2 (6%)	2 (8%)	.72
1	8 (24%)	5 (21%)	.81
2	8 (24%)	14 (50%)	.01
3	10 (29%)	2 (8%)	.05
4+	6 (18%)	1 (4%)	.13
Leucopenia	3 (9%)	2 (8%)	.95