Table 4.

Alert Rates

Category	# of patients	Ave. length period	Alerts/pat-day
All	12679	5.73 days	0.2757
Stable	4048	2.51 days	0.1078
“Stable”: expired/DNR	485	3.50 days	0.2656
Non-stable	3279	5.18 days	0.1721
Unstable: full period	4867	9.00 days	0.3815
Unstable: 24hrs prior to ct	3431	0.33 days	0.8214
Unstable: beginning to 24hrs prior to ct	712	4.93 days	0.2010
Unstable: after ct	4867	8.06 days	0.3894