Facilitates workflow/ patient care Slows workflow/ hinders patient care Initially slowed workflow/hindered patient care but now facilitates Not sure/ don’t know P value
  No. No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)  
Using the electronic health record system    
Primary care provider 24 17 (71) 1 (4) 3 (13) 3 (13) 0.4565
Nursing staff 26 23 (89) 0 (0) 2 (8) 1 (4)  
  No. Strongly agree/agree Neutral Disagree/strongly disagree Don’t know  
Best-practice alerts* facilitate workflow and/or patient care    
Primary care provider 24 16 (67) 8 (33) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0.002
Nurse 26 12 (46) 5 (19) 9 (35) 0 (0)  
The “rapid flu test “is useful for clinical decisions†    
Primary care provider 24 0 (0) 4 (17) 19 (79) 1 (4) <0.001
Nursing staff 26 11 (42) 10 (39) 3 (12) 2 (8)  
  No. All of the time/most of the time Some of the time Rarely Never  
When prompted . . . how often do you perform or order an NP‡ swab?    
Primary care provider 24 6 (25) 10 (42) 7 (29) 1 (4) 0.007
Nursing staff 26 16 (62) 8 (31) 1 (4) 1 (4)  
*Best-practice alerts = computer decision support alerts.
† Rapid flu test = enzyme immunoassay for influenza A and B (BiNaxNow®; Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey) performed by nasopharyngeal swab.
‡ NP = nasopharyngeal swab performed.
Table 1: Acceptability of clinical decision support alerts encouraging diagnostic testing for influenza to primary care providers and nursing staff.