Demographic characteristics and physician attitudes of sepsis order set and intravenous fluid recommendations
| Characteristics | n (%) |
| Gender | |
| Female | 15 (33) |
| Clinical service | |
| General medicine (teaching) | 19 (45) |
| Haematology | 8 (19) |
| Cardiology | 5 (12) |
| Oncology | 3 (7) |
| General medicine (private) | 2 (5) |
| Other | 6 (14) |
| Which of the following are the reasons why you did not use the EPIC sepsis order set? (n=26 providers) | |
| Preferred to place sepsis orders separately | 18 (69) |
| Sepsis alert did not capture a meaningful change in clinical condition | 15 (58) |
| Unaware of sepsis alert order set | 7 (27) |
| Inappropriate to use sepsis alert order set (eg, patient does not have sepsis) | 3 (12) |
| Which of the following are the reasons why you did not give 30 mL/kg intravenous fluids in response to the alert? (n=26 providers) | |
| Provider worried about fluid overload | 15 (63) |
| Provider did not feel patient was hypotensive (eg, the blood pressure measured was not sufficiently different from their baseline) | 13 (54) |
| Provider did not feel that the patient had sepsis | 4 (17) |
| Provider unaware of the 30 mL/kg intravenous fluid guidelines | 3 (13) |