- Commitment from hospital governance and senior administrative leadership to support early detection and appropriate management of sepsis in their healthcare system.
- Develop a team approach to implement a protocol for early sepsis identification and treatment.
- Create a sepsis dashboard for your organization’s leadership.
- Implement a Sepsis Rapid Response Team or incorporate early detection of sepsis into your existing medical emergency teams (e.g. rapid response teams).
- Formalize processes to screen patients for signs of sepsis throughout the entire institution.
- Implement an effective monitoring system to accomplish continuous monitoring and early detection, based on existing data (SIRS criteria, MEWS or any other warning system being used).
- Select an EHR or leverage the existing EHR to serve as a data collection tool and repository for predicting risk of sepsis for patients. A system that provides a data collection tool and allows for continuous analysis and surveillance will be most beneficial.
- Implementation of automated electronic screening and documentation of process of care based on existing data (SIRS criteria, MEWS or any other warning system being used).