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RELIABILITY: SEPSIS MANAGEMENT BUNDLE

Definition

This measure tells teams how often every item on the Sepsis Management Bundle was completed in each patient during the review period. It is defined as the percent of cases of severe sepsis and/or septic shock that completed all applicable Sepsis Management Bundle elements.  Measures of the reliability inform teams about the extent of error-free operation of their clinical processes. In this case, not following every indicated bundle item in each patient constitutes an error.

 Numerator Number of cases of severe sepsis and/or septic shock that completed all applicable Sepsis Management Bundle elements
 Denominator Total number of patients with severe sepsis and/or septic shock

                                                                                         Exclusion: Non-severe sepsis

Goal

Increase the percentage of cases completing the Sepsis Management Bundle to 100 percent.
 

Related Changes

Implement the Severe Sepsis Management Bundle

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bundles, reliability

Use Improvement Tracker  to enter, save, and graph your team's data.
 
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