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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med. 2013 Nov;126(11):975–981. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.018

Table 1.

Univariate Analyses Comparing Distribution of Each of the Studied Variables in Relation to the Pre- and Post-clinical Decision Support Implementation Periods

Pre-CDS Post-CDS P Value
Total Patients 1542 1349
Patient age, y 55.23 ± 18.1 55.07 ± 17.7 .8 (NS)
Women 1006 (65.2%) 848 (62.9%) .18 (NS)
History of malignancy 674 (43.7%) 624 (46.3%) .17 (NS)
History of thrombosis 177 (11.5%) 184 (13.6%) .08 (NS)
History of surgery 172 (11.15%) 154 (11.4%) .82 (NS)
Elevated D-dimer 472 (30.6%) 329 (24.4%) <.001
Imaging requests entered by attending physicians 246/1474 (16.7%) 197/1331 (14.8%) .17 (NS)

CDS = clinical decision support;NS = not significant.