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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Apr 22;18(7):879–886. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12114

Table 2.

Vital sign assessments and inpatient mortality

Characteristic Phase A
(n=1040)
Phase B
(n =1499)
Phase C
(n =1455)
P
Total Assessments, n 699 910 3546
Assessments Per Patient, mean (SD) 0.67 (0.8) 0.61 (0.8) 2.44 (2.3) <0.001,
Patients with Score ≥4, n (%) -- 71 (4.7) 182 (12.5) <0.001
Score ≥4 Plus Notification, n (%) -- 42 (2.8) 133 (9.1) <0.001
Total Clinician Notifications, n (%) 84 113 161 0.002,
Patients with a clinician notification, % 8.1 7.5 11.1
Clinician notifications per total ITAT score assessments, % 12 12.4 4.5
Died, n (%) 97 (9.3) 85 (5.7) 100 (6.9) 0.002*
Age at Death, median months (IQR) 20.1 (8.8 – 46.2) 18.9 (10.2 – 36.5) 20.3 (10.9 – 33.0) 0.989
Admission to Death, mean days (range) 1.5 (2 – 18) 1.6 (0 – 19) 1.2 (0 – 11) 0.725
*

Phase A was significantly different than Phase B

Phase A was significantly different than Phase C

Phase B was significantly different than Phase C