1. Improving Adherence to Sepsis Guidelines in an Orthopedic Hospital
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Keene, Brittany, Brennan-Cook, Jill, Garvin, Sean, and Polatchek, Jennifer
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Practice guidelines (Medicine) ,Continuing medical education -- Methods ,Sepsis -- Care and treatment ,Orthopedic hospitals -- Quality management ,Registered nurses -- Education ,Health - Abstract
A quality improvement project was conducted to increase adherence to the 3-hour sepsis bundle tasks following implementation of a sepsis response team (SRT). Although the SRT was under used, preliminary data suggested an increase in adherence to 3-hour bundle tasks., Sepsis-related in-hospital mortality remains high in the United States (16%) (Alnababteh et al., 2020) and abroad (36%) (Herran-Monge et al., 2016; Herran-Monge et al., 2019). In 2004, the first edition [...]
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- 2021