Driving sepsis mortality down: Emergency department and critical care partnerships

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 487-498

  Powell, Kristine K ^a   Fowler, Rita J ^b  

^a Office of the Chief Nursing Officer Baylor Scott and oWhite North Texas   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance improvement; Sepsis; Sepsis mortality; Septic shock; Septicemia; Surviving sepsis campaign

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEPSIS;

CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84921885080     PISSN: 08995885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2014.08.005     Document Type: Review

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