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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Health Services Research
  • Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • The Surviving Sepsis Campaign advocates for standardized operating procedures for sepsis management.
  • Limited real-world data exists on the impact of implementing sepsis order sets in clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the association between the utilization of sepsis order sets and hospital mortality.
  • To assess the effect of sepsis order sets on key clinical outcomes and resource utilization.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective cohort study was conducted across 54 acute care hospitals in the United States.
  • Data from 104,662 patients hospitalized with sepsis between December 2020 and November 2022 were analyzed.
  • Hospital mortality was the primary outcome measure, with secondary outcomes including time to antibiotics, time hypotensive, septic shock incidence, length of stay, and discharge disposition.

Main Results:

  • Sepsis order sets were used in 55.5% of patients, associated with a lower mean Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score.
  • Order set use correlated with a 6.3% absolute reduction in hospital mortality (9.7% vs. 16.0%).
  • Significant improvements were observed in time to antibiotics, reduced hypotensive duration, decreased septic shock incidence, shorter hospitalizations, and increased home discharge rates.

Conclusions:

  • Sepsis order set implementation is independently associated with a significant reduction in hospital mortality.
  • These findings underscore the value of sepsis order sets as a tool for large-scale quality improvement in sepsis care.
  • Standardized protocols, like sepsis order sets, can effectively improve patient outcomes in real-world settings.