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Problem | Sepsis is the most common cause of hospital mortality & costs US health system $20 billion annually. For every hour delay in treatment, expected mortality for severe sepsis patients increases significantly.

Outcome | Shepard Health’s FIXXER™ a real-time Care Process Management (CPM) software increases compliance with life-saving treatment bundle compliance.

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• Download (PDF) Solution Information

• Download (PDF) Automating Sepsis Surveillance | White Paper

• Download (PDF) Surviving Sepsis Campaign

Citations

1. Gaieski, D. F., Edwards, J. M., Kallan, M. J. & Carr, B. G. Benchmarking the incidence and mortality of severe sepsis in the United States. Crit. Care Med. 41, 1167–1174 (2013)

2. Gaieski, D. F. et al. Impact of time to antibiotics on survival in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock in whom early goal-directed therapy was initiated in the emergency department. Crit. Care Med. 38, 1045–1053 (2010)

3. Umscheid, C. A. et al. Development, implementation, and impact of an automated early warning and response system for sepsis. J. Hosp. Med. 10, 26–31 (2015)