Background: Sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock remain important contributors to hospital utilization, morbidity and mortality in the United States. Timely interventions including blood cultures, intravenous crystalloid infusions, and antibiotics make up the 3-hour sepsis bundle which represents current standard of practice, and the target of hospital quality reporting. Many aspects of sepsis care are [...]

Background: Background: Patients transferred between hospitals undergo a high-risk transition of care, where communication is asynchronous, information is commonly lost, and mortality is disproportionately high. Prior studies have shown that standardizing communication through checklists can improve outcomes, and conversely lost documentation has been associated with higher mortality. The lack of interoperability of electronic health records [...]