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Surveillance strategies for tracking sepsis incidence and outcomes.
Sepsis is a leading cause of death and the target of intense efforts to improve recognition, management and outcomes. Accurate sepsis surveillance is essential to properly interpreting the impact of quality improvement initiatives, making meaningful comparisons across hospitals and geographic regions, and guiding future research and resource investments. In this review, the investigators discuss the advantages and limitations of different sepsis surveillance strategies and consider future directions.
AHRQ-funded; HS025008.
Citation: Shappell CN, Klompas M, Rhee C .
Surveillance strategies for tracking sepsis incidence and outcomes.
J Infect Dis 2020 Jul 21;222(Suppl 2):S74-s83. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa102..
Keywords: Sepsis, Outcomes, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care