Patient Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of a Sepsis Care Quality Improvement Program in a Health System.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Assess patient outcomes in patients with suspected infection and the cost-effectiveness of implementing a quality improvement program.

Design, setting, and participants

We conducted an observational single-center study of 13,877 adults with suspected infection between March 1, 2014, and July 31, 2017. The 18-month period before and after the effective date for mandated reporting of the sepsis bundle was examined. The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score and culture and antibiotic orders were used to identify patients meeting Sepsis-3 criteria from the electronic health record.

Interventions

The following interventions were performed as follows: 1) multidisciplinary sepsis committee with sepsis coordinator and data abstractor; 2) education campaign; 3)

SUBMITTER: Afshar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195842 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature