title: Collaboration eliminates sepsis readmissions.
abstract: St. Anthony's Hospital and Pinellas Point Nursing and Rehabilitation, both in St. Petersburg, FL, collaborated on a project to reduce sepsis readmissions after a study of heart failure patients showed that many were readmitted with sepsis. - Multidisciplinary committee from both facilities met to develop a sepsis protocol. - Hospital standardized information, tests, and lab values it sends with transferred patients. - Nursing facility screens patients for sepsis on every shift for 15 days. -Team developed a protocol for when patients show signs and symptoms of sepsis.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010359:Patient Readmission; D018805:Sepsis / Q000517:prevention & control*