Effect of performance improvement programs on compliance with sepsis bundles and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several reports suggest that implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines is associated with mortality reduction in sepsis. However, adherence to the guideline-based resuscitation and management sepsis bundles is still poor.

Objective

To perform a systematic review of studies evaluating the impact of performance improvement programs on compliance with Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guideline-based bundles and/or mortality.

Data sources

Medline (PubMed), Scopus and Intercollegiate Studies Institute Web of Knowledge databases from 2004 (first publication of the SSC guidelines) to October 2014.

Study selection

Studies on adult patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock that evaluated changes in compliance to individual/comb

SUBMITTER: Damiani E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422717 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature