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Sepsis alerts were either visible to clinicians (patients in the intervention group) or running silently and not visible (the control group). Inverse probability of treatment-weighted multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of the intervention on individual patient outcomes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Outcomes<\/jats:title><jats:p>In-hospital 30-day mortality (all inpatients), prolonged hospital stay (\u22657 days) and timely antibiotics (\u226460 minutes of the alert) for patients who alerted in the emergency department.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The introduction of the alert was associated with lower odds of death (odds ratio, 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.70-0.84; n\u2009=\u200921\u00a0183), lower odds of prolonged hospital stay \u22657 days (OR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.88-0.99; n\u2009=\u20099988), and in patients who required antibiotics, an increased odds of receiving timely antibiotics (OR, 1.71; 95% CI, 1.57-1.87; n\u2009=\u20094622).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Current evidence that digital sepsis alerts are effective is mixed. In this large UK study, a digital sepsis alert has been shown to be associated with improved outcomes, including timely antibiotics. 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