Time to Treatment and Mortality during Mandated Emergency Care for Sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2013, New York began requiring hospitals to follow protocols for the early identification and treatment of sepsis. However, there is controversy about whether more rapid treatment of sepsis improves outcomes in patients.

Methods

We studied data from patients with sepsis and septic shock that were reported to the New York State Department of Health from April 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016. Patients had a sepsis protocol initiated within 6 hours after arrival in the emergency department and had all items in a 3-hour bundle of care for patients with sepsis (i.e., blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotic agents, and lactate measurement) completed within 12 hours. Multilevel models were used to assess the associations between the time until completion of the 3-hour bun

SUBMITTER: Seymour CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5538258 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature