Surviving Sepsis Campaign: association between performance metrics and outcomes in a 7.5-year study

• Published in: Intensive care medicine Vol. 40; no. 11; pp. 1623 - 1633
• Main Authors: Levy, Mitchell M., Rhodes, Andrew, Phillips, Gary S., Townsend, Sean R., Schorr, Christa A., Beale, Richard, Osborn, Tiffany, Lemeshow, Stanley, Chiche, Jean-Daniel, Artigas, Antonio, Dellinger, R. Phillip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Anesthesiology; Business metrics; Compliance; Critical care; Critical Care Medicine; Emergency medical care; Emergency Medicine; Europe - epidemiology; Evidence-Based Medicine; Guideline Adherence - statistics & numerical data; Hospital Mortality; Hospitals; Humans; Infection; Initiatives; Intensive; Intensive care; Intensive Care Units - standards; Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data; Medical care; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mortality; Original; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care); Pain Medicine; Participation; Patient Care Bundles - statistics & numerical data; Pediatrics; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Public health; Quality management; Resuscitation - standards; Resuscitation - statistics & numerical data; Review boards; Sepsis; Sepsis - mortality; Sepsis - therapy; Septic shock; Severity of Illness Index; Shock, Septic - mortality; Shock, Septic - therapy; South America - epidemiology; United States - epidemiology; South America; United States; Europe; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Ohio; USA; Sepsis; Performance measures; Surviving Sepsis Campaign; Knowledge translation; Performance improvement

Purpose To determine the association between compliance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) performance bundles and mortality. Design Compliance with the SSC performance bundles, which are based on the 2004 SSC guidelines, was measured in 29,470 subjects entered into the SSC database from Janua...