Severe Sepsis Quality Indicators
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Boston,
Massachusetts,
USA
This document is a listing of all the quality indicators related to the Severe Sepsis Bundles with their associated specifications.
Reviewing this document will help improvement teams to understand the measures that will be used to evaluate their progress in improving the care of severely septic patients. The measures are defined as “quality indicators” meaning that they measure the aspects of care that are most correlated with the best outcomes found in the literature.
The language used to define the indicator is precise and exactly identifies what will be measured. The specifications of the indicator describe the numerator and the denominator for the measurement that will ultimately be loaded into Improvement Tracker. Exclusions from the indicator and definitions of particular terms are also contained in the document.
Background
Measures of quality need to be both valid (i.e., based upon scientific evidence) and feasible (i.e., capable of actually being measured in a particular setting). These indicators have been designed to fulfill both criteria. The indicators were drawn from foundational studies in severe sepsis care and have been pilot tested at several institutions.
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