The Sepsis Early Recognition and Response Initiative (SERRI)

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2016 Mar;42(3):122-38. doi: 10.1016/s1553-7250(16)42015-5.

Abstract

Duration of Initiative: 48 months and currently ongoing.

Setting: The Houston Methodist Hospital System and affiliated hospitals (3 facilities with 2 hospital-run skilled nursing facilities in and around Houston), St. Joseph’s Regional Health Center (1 acute care hospital and 2 skilled nursing facilities in Bryan, Texas), Hospital Corporation of America (2 acute care facilities in Houston, 1 acute care facility in McAllen, Texas [Rio Grande Valley]), Kindred Healthcare (2 long term acute care facilities in Houston), Select Medical Specialty Hospitals (2 long term acute care facilities in Houston).

Whom This Should Concern: Hospital administrators, quality and safety officers, performance improvement and patient safety professionals, clinic managers, infection control and prevention staff, and other physicians, nurses, and clinical staff.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration
  • Hospital Administration*
  • Humans
  • Information Systems
  • Inservice Training
  • Leadership
  • Mass Screening / organization & administration*
  • Program Development
  • Program Evaluation
  • Quality Improvement / organization & administration*
  • Sepsis / economics*
  • Sepsis / mortality*
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / economics
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / mortality
  • Vereinigte Staaten