Improving Timeliness of Antibiotic Administration Using a Provider and Pharmacist Facing Sepsis Early Warning System in the Emergency Department Setting: A Randomized Controlled Quality Improvement Initiative*

CONCLUSIONS: In this single-center randomized quality improvement initiative, the display of an electronic health record–based sepsis early warning system–triggered flag combined with electronic health record–based pharmacist notification was associated with shorter time to antibiotic administration without an increase in undesirable or potentially harmful clinical interventions.
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research