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Severe Sepsis Quality Indicators

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Sort Desciption: Definition of Indicator Specifications Blood cultures collected before broad-spectrum antibiotic administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock over the first 6 hours following the time of presentation ...

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Definition of Indicator Specifications Blood cultures collected before broad-spectrum antibiotic administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock over the first 6 hours following the time of presentation The percent of patients who had blood cultures collected prior to broadspectrum antibiotic administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock over the first 6 hours following the time of presentation Numerator: the number of patients who had blood cultures collected before broad-spectrum antibiotic administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock over the first 6 hours following the time of presentation Denominator: the number of patients presenting with severe sepsis and/or septic shock Quality Indicator 2 Definition of Indicator Specifications Median time in minutes to broadspectrum antibiotic(s) administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock following the time of presentation Median time in minutes to administration of broadspectrum antibiotic(s) for severe sepsis and/or septic shock following the time of presentation The median time in minutes to broad-spectrum antibiotic(s) administration for severe sepsis and/or septic shock following the time of presentation Note: For this indicator, time of presentation is determined as follows: (i) If the patient presented to the ED with severe sepsis and/or septic shock, the time of presentation is the ED triage time. (ii) If the management of severe sepsis and/or septic shock is annotated in the chart as beginning on a unit transferring the patient to the ICU, the annotated time and date of the initiation of the resuscitation on the transferring unit is the time of presentation. (iii) If the management of severe sepsis and/or septic shock is NOT annotated as beginning on a unit ...

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