Doctors aren't complying with the CMS sepsis quality measure
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When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2015 performance measure for the treatment of sepsis -- called SEP-1 or the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Early Management Bundle, physicians responded with general befuddlement: the measure demanded they follow such unusual practices as giving 3-liter boluses of saline to anuric, hypertensive, hypoxemic patients with end-stage renal disease, based solely on the presence of lactatemia and a suspicion of sepsis.
Doctors aren't complying with the CMS sepsis quality measure
Doctors aren't complying with the CMS sepsis…
Doctors aren't complying with the CMS sepsis quality measure
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2015 performance measure for the treatment of sepsis -- called SEP-1 or the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Early Management Bundle, physicians responded with general befuddlement: the measure demanded they follow such unusual practices as giving 3-liter boluses of saline to anuric, hypertensive, hypoxemic patients with end-stage renal disease, based solely on the presence of lactatemia and a suspicion of sepsis.