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. 2011 May;104(5):208–218. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110061

Table 6.

Association between rates of high-level (hard stop) alerts and intermediate and low-level alerts by category of warning

Interactions
Dose
Contraindications
Slope (SE) P value Correlation Slope (SE) P value Correlation Slope (SE) P value Correlation
Rate intermediate alerts 0.000 (0.001) 0.000 0.23 0.038 (0.010) 0.000 0.19 −0.027 (0.015) 0.080 −0.09
Rate low-level alerts −0.001 (0.000) 0.079 −0.09 0.015 (0.003) 0.000 0.29 −0.000 (0.001) 0.806 −0.01
Intermediate alerts not heeded (%) 0.008 (0.008) 0.021 0.12 −0.010 (0.038) 0.802 −0.01 −0.000 (0.003) 0.748 −0.02
Low-level alerts not heeded (%) 0.013 (0.008) 0.021 0.10 −0.108 (0.081) 0.182 −0.07 −0.012 (0.008) 0.105 −0.08
Laboratory warnings not heeded (%) −0.000 (0.000) 0.028 −0.11 −0.001 (0.001) 0.359 −0.05 −0.000 (0.000) 0.342 −0.05
Laboratory alarms not heeded (%) −0.000 (0.000) 0.135 −0.08 −0.003 (0.002) 0.053 −0.11 −0.000 (0.000) 0.654 −0.02

P values significant at the 99% level are in bold italics

P values significant at the 95% level are in bold

Slope is the coefficient from a fitted generalized linear model, modelling the linear association between rate of hard stop alerts and each of the listed independent variables within the table