Keeping It Simple in Sepsis Measures

Allan J Walkey^{1

2}, Peter K Lindenauer^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. peter.lindenauer@baystatehealth.org.
⁴ Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Comment

Allan J Walkey et al. J Hosp Med. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;12(12):1019-1020.

doi: 10.12788/jhm.2873.

Allan J Walkey^{1

2}, Peter K Lindenauer^{3

4}

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. peter.lindenauer@baystatehealth.org.
⁴ Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Comment on

Hospital Perceptions of Medicare's Sepsis Quality Reporting Initiative.
Barbash IJ, Rak KJ, Kuza CC, Kahn JM. Barbash IJ, et al. J Hosp Med. 2017 Dec;12(12):963-968. doi: 10.12788/jhm.2929. J Hosp Med. 2017. PMID: 29236094 Free PMC article.

1. Elixhauser A, Friedman B, Stranges E. Septicemia in U.S. Hospitals, 2009. Rockville MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2011. pp. 1–13. HCUP. Statistical Brief #122. - PubMed
1. Liu V, Lei X, Prescott HC, Kipnis P, Iwashyna TJ, Escobar GJ. Hospital readmission and healthcare utilization following sepsis in community settings. J Hosp Med. 2014;9(8):502–507. - PMC - PubMed
1. Liu V, Escobar GJ, Greene JD, et al. Hospital deaths in patients with sepsis from 2 independent cohorts. JAMA. 2014;312(1):90–92. - PubMed
1. Peltan ID, Mitchell KH, Rudd KE, et al. Physician Variation in Time to Antimicrobial Treatment for Septic Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. Crit Care Med. 2017;45(6):1011–1018. - PMC - PubMed
1. Marik PE, Linde-Zwirble WT, Bittner EA, Sahatjian J, Hansell D. Fluid administration in severe sepsis and septic shock, patterns and outcomes: an analysis of a large national database. Intensive Care Med. 2017;43(5):625–632. - PubMed