Background, Rationale, and Suggested Implementation Strategies
Implementing Quality Improvements
- Prioritize interventions with multidisciplinary sepsis committee and determine the intervention that is required
- Implement comprehensive educational campaign
- Build necessary components into EMR(i.e., order sets, BPAs, screening tools, etc)
- Engage key stakeholders to support and prioritize interventions
Evaluation of Effectiveness
- After 3 months of guideline use, obtain provider feedback from multiple groups(including hospitalists, internal medicine, emergency department, etc.), and modify accordingly.
- Meet monthly, initially to develop systems and processes. Ongoing meetings to review data, define problem areas, identify underlying causes of problem areas, and determine interventions for improvement.
- Provide resources, including data analytics and information technology support, to operate the program effectively.
Sustaining Improvement
- Provide audit and feedback directly to teams regarding compliance with bundles
- Use internal patient outcome data to assist with decision-making throughout the organization.
- Create performance boards to communicate improvement results to staff and leadership
- Host improvement huddles at short, regular meetings among staff to anticipate problems, review performance, and support a culture of improvement