Table 2. Comparison of alert response rate and median time to alert acknowledgement between the severe sepsis alert system through AWARE and simulated severe sepsis alerts through traditional text paging.

	Text paging (N = 156)	AWARE (N = 148)	p-value
Alert response rate (N)	51% (80)	3% (5)	0.001
Median time to alert acknowledgement (IQR)	2 mins (1–32)	274 mins (130–517)	0.053