Compliance with a relaxed "care bundle" was associated with lower 30-day mortality and shorter median hospital stays among children with sepsis, according to interim data from the Improving Pediatric ...

Although many healthcare leaders applaud the attention CMS is bringing to this deadly condition, some are finding the highly prescriptive measures too constricting. In the wake of the October 2015 ...

Interim results from a 40-hospital pediatric sepsis quality improvement study support lengthening the initial window for giving fluids and antibiotics. They also suggest better outcomes when providers ...

Jan. 18, 2005 (Phoenix) -- A fast sepsis treatment protocol when completed in the emergency department of a large academic medical center reduced in-hospital sepsis mortality to 12.5% compared with a ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers two severe sepsis bundles to guide healthcare providers’ care of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. IHI updated its sepsis bundles in ...

For years, the approach to sepsis in acute care settings has been the same: early warning alerts and standardized care protocols. Unfortunately, it hasn’t moved the needle. Sepsis still affects 2.5 ...

New York’s statewide mandatory initiative for sepsis treatment increased compliance with sepsis bundles, leading to a decrease in sepsis-related mortality, according to a study published in American ...

Adopting an early warning system and deploying care bundles for the infection are keys to treating sepsis patients. A pair of health systems have made strides in improving their treatment of sepsis ...

Completing the entire bundle within 1 hour was associated with a lower risk of in-hospital mortality (odds ratio [OR], 0.59; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.38 to 0.93; P=.02). HealthDay News — ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' enrollment window for the second wave of bundled payment participants has opened, and new data suggest there's an overlooked area that works well with ...

APT-Sepsis programme cuts maternal death and severe infection risk through better prevention, detection, and treatment.

A nurse’s creative idea for educating colleagues about the management of sepsis has been rolled out by her trust. Jess Davies, critical care nurse and former sepsis champion at the Shrewsbury and ...