For me, community screening is about safety netting rather than 100% sensitivity for uncomplicated sepsis. It's not yet certain whether SIRS criteria have any place in the community setting, and resources to identify non-shock severe sepsis are limited.
We are piloting schemes in the UK using a safety netting approach to identify the sickest, but I believe this has to be in collaboration between patient and community health worker- one strategy has been to use the attached cards. BW Ron Dr Ron Daniels *Chair- UK Sepsis Trust* *Chief Executive- Global Sepsis Alliance Founding Fellow- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine* *Suspect sepsis- save someone’s life today!* * Twitter: @Sepsis UK* On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anyone doing this? Specifically in internal medicine clinics > and free standing urgent care centers? > > Screening everyone is proving to be difficult giving the setting: many > patients may not meet severe sepsis criteria (some do)... > How do we bridge the gap between sepsis and severe sepsis without missing > people? > > Our goal, of course is to catch these patients before the move along the > sepsis continuum or end up in the ED. > > Any advice is welcome. > thanks > joannie > > ---------* > Joan M. Grand* > Medical Center Administrative Director > > *Kaiser Permanente* > Capitol Hill Medical Center > 700 2nd Street North East > Washington, DC 20001 > > 202-346-3058 (office) > 202-346-3061 (fax) > 202-603-5482 (mobile phone) > [email protected] > ---------* > **kp.org/thrive* <http://kp.org/thrive> > > *NOTICE TO RECIPIENT:* If you are not the intended recipient of this > e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or > disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please > notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this > e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. > Thank you. > >
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