Decisio White Paper

ABSTRACT
Sepsis is a leading cause of death and one of the costliest condition among
hospitalized patients in the United States. The Society of Critical Care Medicine &
the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s Surviving Sepsis Campaign has
resulted in greater emphasis on early goal-directed therapy and the initiation of 3-
hour and 6-hour sepsis bundles that have been proven to reduce mortality 1 . Yet
early identification of sepsis and attempts to institute bundle compliance
consistently have been ambiguous, and reports in the scholarly literature about
institutional best practices are sparse.
In this white paper, we report the results of a 2017 implementation of
DECISIOInsight ® , a clinical surveillance data visualization system, at an academic
medical center in the United States.
Collaborating with strong clinical partners, we achieved success across four main
areas:
1. We improved the health of hospitalized patients by identifying sepsis in its
earliest stages and promptly administering antibiotics to reduce its
severity, and mortality.
2. We improved patient experience by reducing overall hospital length of stay
by 22%.
3. We helped our clinical partners save an estimated $28.2 million dollars per
year.
4. We achieved high clinician satisfaction.
March 2018
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