WASHINGTON -- A longstanding controversy over a quality measure for managing sepsis is bubbling up once again. The quality measure, known as the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle, or ...
Sepsis is an increasingly dangerous and costly problem to hospitals. Affecting more than 1 million Americans per year, sepsis accounts for 40 percent of ICU spend. When combined with pneumonia, it is ...
A new study led by the Center for Sepsis Epidemiology and Prevention Studies (SEPSIS) at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ...
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and a coalition of medical professional societies have released recommendations for modifying the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sepsis metrics ...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) rejected an appeal of its decision to endorse the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle (or SEP-1) measure for treating sepsis. The NQF originally endorsed ...
Sepsis, a deadly complication caused by the body’s extreme response to infection, poses a major issue for hospitals as the condition is both difficult and expensive to treat. Sepsis accounts for ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) current guidelines for treating sepsis should be retired and replaced with more performance-based measures, according to a coalition of medical ...
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On June 21, Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, will host a webinar on crucial new reporting ...
Researchers determined that the increase in sepsis was not due to the growing number of American seniors enrolling in Medicare. From 2012 through 2018, the U.S. saw a 22 percent increase in the ...
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