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Improving Timely Sepsis Care Through Staff Education Within The Emergency Department, Leman E. Bush

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Abstract

Problem: Sepsis is a life-threatening infection that needs immediate treatment. The ED uses sepsis bundle protocols to treat sepsis but the compliance rates for the order sets are below the institution’s guidelines.

Context: A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted a sepsis performance measure bundle in 2015 called (SEP-1) to promote cost-effective, high-quality care for septic patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) (Wang et al., 2020). The ED in a chosen San Francisco, CA acute care hospital has been experiencing unsteady sepsis bundle compliance rates. Sepsis is caught by 1.7 million American adults per year …