New Mandated Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Requirements for Sepsis Reporting: Caution from the Field

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 109-116

  Aaronson, Emily L ^a   Filbin, Michael R ^a   Brown, David F M ^a   Tobin, Kathy ^a   Mort, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

access and evaluation; health care quality; health care quality assessment; quality indicators; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE PERFUSION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; SEPSIS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992104296     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2016.08.009     Document Type: Article

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