Implementation of sepsis bundles in public hospitals in Brazil: a prospective study with heterogeneous results

Abstract Background Public hospitals in emerging countries pose a challenge to quality improvement initiatives in sepsis. Our objective was to evaluate the results of a quality improvement initiative in sepsis in a network of public institutions and to assess potential differences between institutio...

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Main Authors: Flavia Ribeiro Machado, Elaine Maria Ferreira, Pierre Schippers, Ilusca Cardoso de Paula, Letícia Sandre Vendrame Saes, Francisco Ivanildo de Oliveira, Paula Tuma, Wilson Nogueira Filho, Felipe Piza, Sandra Guare, Cláudia Mangini, Gustavo Ziggiatti Guth, Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Flavio Geraldo Resende Freitas, Jose Luiz Gomes do Amaral, Nacime Salomão Mansur, Reinaldo Salomão, on behalf of the SPDM against sepsis project
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Critical Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-017-1858-z