Treating Sepsis Is Complicated: Are Governmental Regulations for Sepsis Care Too Simplistic?

Regulatory agencies evaluate hospitals' care of patients with sepsis according to their completion of the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) performance measure. Pepper and colleagues found that evidence is lacking to support a survival benefit of SEP-1 or its hemodynamic interventions. The editorialists discuss this study's importance in light of the many hours it may require for clinicians to comply with SEP-1's documentation requirements.

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