Sepsis Definitions: The Search for Gold and What CMS Got Wrong

On October 1, 2015, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a core measure addressing the care of septic patients. These core measures are controversial among healthcare providers. This article will address that there is no gold standard definition for sepsis, sever...

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Autores principales: Kalantari, Annahieta, Mallemat, Haney, Weingart, Scott D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2017
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Critical Care
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874949
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2017.4.32795
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description On October 1, 2015, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a core measure addressing the care of septic patients. These core measures are controversial among healthcare providers. This article will address that there is no gold standard definition for sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock and the CMS-assigned definitions for severe sepsis and septic shock are premature and inconsistent with evidence-based definitions.
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spelling pubmed-55766332017-09-05 Sepsis Definitions: The Search for Gold and What CMS Got Wrong Kalantari, Annahieta Mallemat, Haney Weingart, Scott D. West J Emerg Med Critical Care On October 1, 2015, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a core measure addressing the care of septic patients. These core measures are controversial among healthcare providers. This article will address that there is no gold standard definition for sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock and the CMS-assigned definitions for severe sepsis and septic shock are premature and inconsistent with evidence-based definitions. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2017-08 2017-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5576633/ /pubmed/28874949 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2017.4.32795 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Kalantari et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576633/
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