Managed clinical protocol: impact of implementation on sepsis treatment quality indicators

Autor: Camila Brito Borguezam, Caroline Tolentino Sanches, Silvia Paulino Ribeiro Albaneser, Uiara Rodrigues de Oliveira Moraes, Cintia Magalhães Carvalho Grion, Gilselena Kerbauy
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, Vol 74, Iss 2 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1984-0446
0034-7167
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0282
Popis: ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the impact of the implementation of a managed sepsis protocol on quality indicators of treatment for septic patients in an emergency department of a university hospital. Methods: an observational epidemiological study involving septic patients. The study was divided into two phases, pre-intervention and intervention, resulting from the implementation of the managed sepsis protocol. The study variables included sepsis treatment quality indicators. The results were statistically analyzed using the program Epi InfoTM. Results: the study sample included 631 patients, 95 from pre-intervention phase and 536 from intervention phases. Implementing the protocol increased patients’ chances of receiving the recommended treatment by 14 times. Implementing the protocol reduced the hospitalization period by 6 days (p
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