2021年6月22日 · “SEP-1” is shorthand for “The Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management Bundle.” It lays out guidelines for frontline hospital clinicians fighting sepsis. SEP-1 focuses on timely sepsis recognition and early intervention with lifesaving therapies.

2023年5月1日 · SEP-1 is a process for healthcare professionals in hospitals to follow for every patient with severe sepsis or septic shock. It focuses on timely sepsis recognition and early intervention with lifesaving therapies, like a fast first dose of broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Consistent with the guidelines of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, this composite measure evaluates the processes associated with high-quality care for patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. This fact sheet provides background information and details about the measure, with links to additional sources. Why sepsis?

2021年12月20日 · Changes in Risk-Adjusted Outcomes of Patients With Suspected Sepsis Before and After Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) Implementation. The vertical dotted lines denote the SEP-1 policy implementation period in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015.

2023年10月20日 · The SEP-1 measure requires clinicians to provide a bundle of care to all patients with possible sepsis within three hours of recognition. The bundle includes drawing blood cultures, administering broad-spectrum antibiotics and other measures.

We used recently released data from this program to characterize national performance on the sepsis measure, known as SEP-1. Cross-sectional study of United States hospitals participating in the CMS Hospital IQRP linked to CMS’s Healthcare Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS). General, short-stay, acute-care hospitals in the United States.

2016年5月17日 · The new CMS Core Measure for sepsis (SEP-1) has drawn praise, criticism, and confusion. Providers, documentation specialists, and coders need to collaborate to ensure sepsis is properly documented and treated to ensure compliance with CMS Core Measure SEP-1.

2021年12月20日 · SEP-1 is a complex, composite, “all or none” quality measure that currently requires a high degree of manual medical record abstraction. The complexity of the measure may also complicate its use for improvement.

2022年3月16日 · Both the SSC guidelines and the SEP-1 measure allow a reasonable time window for this intervention. The guidelines encourage action within 3 hours for delivering antibiotics to patients with sepsis, and 1 hour for patients with septic shock.

2018年9月28日 · On October 1, 2015, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented its new core bundle measure Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) for severe sepsis and septic shock as part of its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (Hospital IQR) program.