Empiric antibiotic treatment reduces mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock from the first hour: Results from a guideline-based performance improvement program

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1749-1755

  Ferrer, Ricard ^a   Martin Loeches, Ignacio ^b   Phillips, Gary ^c   Osborn, Tiffany M ^d   Townsend, Sean ^e   Dellinger, R Phillip ^f   Artigas, Antonio ^b   Schorr, Christa ^f   Levy, Mitchell M ^g  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; knowledge translation; performance improvement; performance metrics; sepsis; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEVERE SEPSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904734154     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000330     Document Type: Article

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