Using quality improvement principles to improve the care of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock

Ochsner Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-366

  Seoane, Leonardo ^a   Winterbottom, Fiona ^a   Nash, Teresa ^a   Behrhorst, Jessica ^a   Chacko, Elen ^a   Shum, Lucas ^a   Pavlov, Andrey ^a   Briski, David ^a   Thibeau, Shelley ^b   Bergeron, Dominique ^a   Rafael, Tiffany ^b   Sundell, Erik ^b  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Quality improvement; Sepsis; Shock septic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TEAMWORK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884170532     PISSN: 15245012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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