The Importance of Shifting Sepsis Quality Measures From Processes to Outcomes
Michael Klompas, Chanu Rhee, Mervyn Singer
Abstract
This Viewpoint discusses the failure of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ SEP-1 sepsis outcome improvement initiative to improve patients’ sepsis outcomes and suggests changing the focus of sepsis quality metrics from processes to outcomes.
Topics & Concepts
MedicineSepsisMedicaidIntensive care medicineOutcome (game theory)Quality (philosophy)Quality managementInternal medicineHealth careOperations managementManagement systemEconomicsMathematicsEpistemologyPhilosophyMathematical economicsEconomic growthSepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeHemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy