Table 2.
Association and agreement between the documentation of ‘sepsis’ and a sense of urgency
| Sense of urgency documented | OR (95% CI) | P value | Kappa | ||||
| Yes | No | ||||||
| GP referral letters | ‘Sepsis’ documented | Yes | 29 | 6 | 16.6 (7 to 42) | <0.001 | 0.4 |
| No | 49 | 168 | |||||
| EMS charts | ‘Sepsis’ documented | Yes | 14 | 19 | 2.9 (1 to 6) | 0.007 | 0.19 |
| No | 32 | 126 | |||||
| ED charts | ‘Sepsis’ documented | Yes | 28 | 35 | 8.8 (5 to 17) | <0.001 | 0.39 |
| No | 23 | 253 | |||||
ED, emergency department; EMS, emergency medical services; GP, general practitioner.