A new study raises critical questions about the effectiveness of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) sepsis quality measure, known as the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle ...

In this study, published in JAMA Network Open and titled "Complex Sepsis Presentations, SEP-1 Bundle Compliance, and Outcomes ...

SEP-1 was adopted based on evidence that bundle compliance was associated with lower mortality rates. In 2023, CMS announced ...

In the past two months, two studies have found little to no association between CMS’ sepsis care rule and improved mortality.

In this study, published in JAMA Network Open and titled “Complex Sepsis Presentations, SEP-1 Bundle Compliance, and Outcomes,” researchers from the SEPSIS Center at the Harvard Pilgrim Health ...

The economic burden of sepsis in Canada and the economic rationale for implementing coordinated, national strategies to ...

Of 12 observational studies in their systematic review that addressed the relationship between mortality and compliance to the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle (SEP-1), five ...