TY - JOUR
T1 - Sepsis definitions
T2 - The search for gold and what CMS got wrong
AU - Kalantari, Annahieta
AU - Mallemat, Haney
AU - Weingart, Scott D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the article author(s).
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - On October 1, 2015, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a core measure addressing the care of septic patients. These core measures are controversial among healthcare providers. This article will address that there is no gold standard definition for sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock and the CMS-assigned definitions for severe sepsis and septic shock are premature and inconsistent with evidence-based definitions.
AB - On October 1, 2015, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a core measure addressing the care of septic patients. These core measures are controversial among healthcare providers. This article will address that there is no gold standard definition for sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock and the CMS-assigned definitions for severe sepsis and septic shock are premature and inconsistent with evidence-based definitions.
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U2 - 10.5811/westjem.2017.4.32795
DO - 10.5811/westjem.2017.4.32795
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28874949
AN - SCOPUS:85027858732
SN - 1936-900X
VL - 18
SP - 951
EP - 956
JO - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
JF - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
IS - 5
ER -