Table 2.

Qualitative responses assessing current barriers to practical use of all-procedure risk calculators^*.

	Number of individuals citing barrier
Lack of health information technology integration	39
“Making it more available, accessible on computers, apps, etc.”
“Need to integrate into EMR (electronic medical record)”
“Inconvenient to access it. Not readily available to me on the spot.”
Lack of specificity	18
“...hard to get the risk calculator to be very specific to the case I’m doing, and if it doesn’t match, it’s hard for me to adjust.”
“It does not have certain procedures included in its list.”
“Patients here are usually the exception and not the norm.”
Lack of familiarity	11
“Not aware of the calculator.”
“Not sure how to access it.”
Efficiency cost	11
“Not enough time in the day.”
“It is way too slow and cumbersome to enter information.”
Lack of perceived benefit	11
“I do not use it except in situations where patients are very high-risk.”
“I don’t think the exact percentage risk is all that helpful.”
Difficulty of interpreting risks and communicating to patients	8
“Patients have a limited understanding of what these percentages mean.”
“Difficult to explain meaningfulness of this data to patients.”
Lack of evidence	6
“Database possess too many limitations to effectively and accurately risk stratify”
“Not evidence-based (to communicate risk) and has proven to be an ineffective means to communicate risk.”

NSQIP RC provided in prompt as example of “all-procedure risk calculator.” Multiple responses allowed.

^*89 respondents.