Sepsis Quality Improvement Tools

Sepsis remains the leading cause of hospitalization and hospital mortality, contributing to over a third of hospital deaths. You can work towards reducing sepsis mortality one week at a time through Telligen’s “call to action” series. These action items will empower the use of data to understanding sepsis cases at your facility, support collaboration, increase awareness of evidence-based practices for sepsis prevention, and engage patients and families.

As part of its rapid-cycle improvement programs, Eastern US Quality Improvement Collaborative (EQIC), created this sepsis assessment tool that hospitals can use to compare current operations and outcomes to evidence-based best practices.

This toolkit was designed by Superior Health Quality Alliance to assist health care organizations in implementing an early recognition and management of sepsis program in the post-acute setting.

This flow chart lays out a clinical pathway for evaluating sepsis in hospital inpatients.

A new sepsis and flu infographic created by the Sepsis Alliance to encourage the flu immunization.

This "Sepsis Champion Program" tool can help hospitals in their quality improvement efforts to optimize sepsis management and emphasize the importance of early recognition and timely treatment.

Hospitals can use this tool to survey and evaluate their processes for reducing sepsis, with the goal of providing safe, high-quality patient care.

This discovery tool helps hospitals provide safer patient care by identifying process improvement opportunities for reducing cases of sepsis.

The Process Improvement Discovery Tool can help hospitals provide safer patient care by identifying improvement opportunities for post-op sepsis prevention.

A checklist for hospitals to review current interventions, or initiate new ones, to reduce sepsis mortality in your facility.