Sepsis in emergency medicine toolkit

Recommendation

• Collect, review and analyze emergency department-specific data related to the care of patients with sepsis.
• Assemble a multi-disciplinary sepsis team to regularly review data, develop improvement strategies and update hospital sepsis policies.

Rationale

• Data collection is essential for understanding sepsis outcomes.
• Collecting data can help identify areas for improvement.

Tools

• Hospital toolkit for adult sepsis surveillance
• Sepsis data collection fact sheet and definitions