ArticleCritical care explorations2023
Order Set Usage is Associated With Lower Hospital Mortality in Patients With Sepsis.
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- Standardizing the diagnosis of necrotizing enterocolitis in infants with congenital heart disease.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Guideline concordance of electronic health record order sets for hospital-based treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Article
- Decreased racial disparities in sepsis mortality after an order set-driven initiative: An analysis of 8151 patients.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommends standard operating procedures for patients with sepsis. Real-world evidence about sepsis order set implementation is limited.
objectivesTo estimate the effect of sepsis order set usage on hospital mortality.
designRetrospective cohort study. SETTING AND
participantsFifty-four acute care hospitals in the United States from December 1, 2020 to November 30, 2022 involving 104,662 patients hospitalized for sepsis. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Hospital mortality.
resultsThe sepsis order set was used in 58,091 (55.5%) patients with sepsis. Initial mean sequential organ failure assessment score was 0.3 lower in patients for whom the order set was used than in those for whom it was not used (2.9 sd [2.8] vs 3.2 [3.1], CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In a cohort of patients hospitalized with sepsis, order set use was independently associated with lower hospital mortality. Order sets can impact large-scale quality improvement efforts.
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