Hospital Perceptions of Medicare's Sepsis Quality Reporting Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In October 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Sepsis CMS Core Measure (SEP-1) program, requiring hospitals to report data on the quality of care for their patients with sepsis.

Objective

We sought to understand hospital perceptions of and responses to the SEP-1 program.

Design

A thematic content analysis of semistructured interviews with hospital quality officials.

Setting

A stratified random sample of short-stay, nonfederal, general acute care hospitals in the United States.

Patients

Hospital quality officers, including nurses and physicians.

Measurements

We completed 29 interviews before reaching content saturation.

Results

Hospitals reported a variety of actions in response to SEP-1, inc

SUBMITTER: Barbash IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830093 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature