Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure

Perspectives on Politics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 994-996

  Rhee, Chanu ^a,b   Brown, Sarah R ^b   Jones, Travis M ^c   O'Brien, Cara ^d   Pande, Anupam ^e   Hamad, Yasir ^e   Bulger, Amy L ^b   Tobin, Kathleen A ^f   Massaro, Anthony F ^b   Anderson, Deverick J ^c   Warren, David K ^e   Klompas, Michael ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARE BUNDLE; CLINICAL AUDIT; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE BUNDLES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85061178889     PISSN: 15375927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.134     Document Type: Article

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