Dear Colleagues: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign announces the launch of an initiative to increase early recognition and treatment of sepsis in patients on hospital floors. This effort is made possible through a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue the work of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) in the United States. This is the second grant from the foundation to the Society of Critical Care Medicine for its sepsis work. The aim of the new initiative is to study, test and disseminate tools related to the early identification and treatment of sepsis on hospital medical, surgical or telemetry units. The project leads are SCCM past-president Mitchell M. Levy, MD, FCCM, and Sean R. Townsend, MD, who will collaborate with SSC Steering Committee members and quality improvement and hospitalist leaders from the Society of Hospital Medicine to provide guidance to hospitals as they identify and rapidly treat these high-risk patients. Earlier interventions may lead to better outcomes for patients as sepsis often rapidly escalates to organ failure and death. The initiative will have learning collaboratives in the San Francisco Bay area, Chicago area and the East Coast (meeting in Providence, RI) starting in February 2014. The collaboratives will run for 18 months and have three in-person meetings with web-based meetings and teleconferences for additional learning sessions and report outs in between. The grant includes funding for dissemination of knowledge through a journal and etools, which will be available on the SSC website: U.S. hospitals interested in participating, should visit: www.survivingsepsis.org/About-SSC/Collaborative<http://www.survivingsepsis.org/About-SSC/Collaborative>, for more information about the collaboratives, the inclusion/eligibility criteria and to apply online. You may also contact me at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>,or 847-827-7088.
Best wishes, Stephen Stephen L. Davidow, MBA-HCM, APR | Manager, Quality Implementation Programs | Society of Critical Care Medicine 500 Midway Drive, Mount Prospect, IL 60056-5811 USA t: +1 847.827.7088 | f: +1 847.827.7123 | www.sccm.org www.facebook.com/SCCM1 | www.twitter.com/SCCM | www.youtube.com/SCCM500
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