Using objective clinical data to track progress on preventing and treating sepsis: CDC's new 'Adult Sepsis Event' surveillance strategy

BMJ Qual Saf. 2019 Apr;28(4):305-309. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2018-008331. Epub 2018 Sep 25.

Chanu Rhee^{1

2}, Raymund Barretto Dantes^{3

4}, Lauren Epstein⁴, Michael Klompas^{5

2}

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA crhee@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Keywords: critical care; healthcare quality improvement; quality measurement.

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