Background: Sepsis is the leading cause of death in US hospitals; prompt recognition and treatment are critical. Early sepsis recognition and treatment varies depending on location (ED/floor/ICU) and evaluation time (presentation vs during stay). “Sepsis response teams” (SRT) improve sepsis care. After our hospital system implemented a “best-practice alert” utilizing Epic’s “sepsis score” (SS) to […]

Background: Effectively screening for sepsis in a hospital setting remains an elusive goal. Designed processes have been plagued by poor specificity [3,5], leading to alarm fatigue [2] and overuse of resources. Electronic tools have attempted to automate some or all screening, but thus far to inconsistent success [1]. Furthermore, for patients screened as septic, quickly […]