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Severe Sepsis &/or Septic Shock (Time of Presentation or TOP) Document POSITIVE severe sepsis &/or septic shock screen in CareConnect Initiate Severe Sepsis &/or Septic Shock Bundle (per adult sepsis Nursing protocol & core measure requirements) NURSES Initial Lactate Level > (per nursing protocol, no co-sign required) Blood Cultures X 2 sets Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Measure SEP-1 The Early Management Bundle for Severe Sepsis/ Septic Shock Jeremy S. Faust, MD, MSa,*, Scott D. Weingart, MDb The authors of this article have nothing to disclose. a Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical The Sepsis Core Measure involves minimum sets of actions required by 3-hour and 6-hour time points after a patient reaches severe sepsis or septic shock (figure). Departments across The Johns Hopkins Hospital have shown only 50 percent compliance since October. Public reporting of the measure will not begin until at least October 1, 2016. Sepsis Core Measure Process Changes CMS has introduced a new measure to assess the quality of sepsis care in hospitals. The purpose of the severe sepsis and septic shock early management bundle measure is to facilitate "efficient, effective, and timely delivery of high quality sepsis care in support of the IOM's aims for quality improvement." hours of presentation of severe sepsis, while the remaining interventions are expected to occur within 6 hours of presentation of septic shock. Rationale: The evidence cited for all components of this measure is directly related to decreases in organ failure, overall reductions in hospital mortality, length of stay, and costs of care. that the recorded incidence of sepsis is rising by approximately 11.5% each year (table 1 - this trend is repeated in other countries where data are collected such as by the Center for Disease Control in the United States). The increase in recorded incidence of sepsis will be in part due to heightened