• Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Mar 2011

    Performance improvement in the management of sepsis.

    • Christa Schorr.
    • Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ 08103, USA. schorr-christa@cooperhealth.edu
    • Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2011 Mar 1;23(1):203-13.

    AbstractSepsis guidelines, although creating a base to allow change in health care practitioner behavior, do not, in and of themselves, effect change. Change only comes with institution of a PI program, converting a core of key goals of guideline recommendations to quality indicators, and giving feedback on performance. These quality indicators are tracked before or during (recommended approach) initiation of hospital-wide education to evaluate baseline performance. When combining multispecialty and multidisciplinary champions in the ED, hospital wards, ICU, and hospital administrative leadership with timely performance feedback, case failure analysis, and re-education, an opportunity to succeed in decreasing mortality in severe sepsis can be achieved. Sepsis bundle indicators require updating as new evidence emerges and new guidelines are published.(30,31)Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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