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Code Sepsis: The Time to Act is Now

Bradshaw, William
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6899-5345
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1646062202544434

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2022, DNP, Kent State University, College of Nursing.
Nearly 1.7 million adults are diagnosed with sepsis each year in America. If sepsis is not identified and treated rapidly, it can cause permanent organ damage and death. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed a core measure that is separated into a three-hour and a six-hour bundle to assist hospitals with the timely treatment of sepsis (Levy et al., 2018). The outcomes of this core measure are publicly reported by hospitals. Compliance with sepsis bundles has been shown to decrease mortality and improve outcomes. At a large teaching hospital in northeastern Ohio, compliance with the sepsis bundle core measure was 58.8% from June 2020 – September 2020 which is below the target rate of 75%. The reasons for this are multifactorial, but include delayed sepsis recognition, documentation insufficiency, and communication hand off failure. To help improve compliance, an Interdisciplinary Code Sepsis Team was implemented on October 19, 2020. This Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement project used the Plan-Do-Study-Act method to evaluate documentation compliance of the elements of the sepsis bundle after the implementation of the Interdisciplinary Code Sepsis Team.
Lisa Onesko (Advisor)
Kimberly Cleveland (Committee Member)
Marilyn Nibling (Committee Member)
55 p.
Health Care
Keywords: sepsis, sepsis bundle, team, compliance

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  • Bradshaw, W. (2022). Code Sepsis: The Time to Act is Now [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1646062202544434

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bradshaw, William. Code Sepsis: The Time to Act is Now. 2022. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1646062202544434.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bradshaw, William. "Code Sepsis: The Time to Act is Now." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1646062202544434

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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