Improving Survival | Sepsis | CDC

Improving Survival | Sepsis | CDC

Improving Survival Through Policy and Collaboratives

The information in the links below describe efforts of individual healthcare facilities and groups of facilities (often called “collaboratives”) to improve survival of sepsis.

CDC defines a prevention collaborative as when many healthcare facilities engage in efforts to improve an outcome, in this case to reduce sepsis morbidity and mortality. The members of the collaborative use a common, though not necessarily identical, approach, discuss progress regularly and share lessons learned in real time so that others in the group can benefit from the experiences.

For clinical resources to improve survival of sepsis, please visit Clinical Guidelines and Tools .

To help your patients who have survived sepsis cope with potential challenges, CDC’s Life after Sepsis: What Sepsis Survivors Need to Know[PDF - 659 KB] fact sheet answers some important questions.

Sepsis Prevention and Early Recognition State Policy Approaches

State Policy Approaches to Sepsis Prevention and Early Recognition [PDF - 280 KB]

Sepsis Prevention and Early Recognition Improvement Collaboratives*

• Baptist Memorial Hospital: Sepsis: Putting the Pieces Together 
• Children’s Hospital Association: A Broad View of National Pediatric Sepsis Efforts
• Christiana Care: Sepsis Alert Program Leads to More Timely Diagnosis and Treatment
• Kaiser Permanente Northern California: Removing Sepsis
• Methodist Medical Center of Illinois: Think Sepsis—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identify Early Sepsis and Improve Patient Outcomes
• St. Alexius Medical Center: Improving Sepsis Mortality and Cost of Care through Quality Improvement[PDF - 2.27 MB]
• South Nassau Communities Hospital: Reducing Sepsis Mortality[PDF - 255 KB]
• Stony Brook University Medical Center: Reducing Sepsis Mortality[PDF - 313 KB]
• STOP Sepsis Collaborative:
  • Greater New York Hospital Association
  • United Hospital Fund
• University of California San Francisco: Nine-Hospital Collaborative Reduces Sepsis Mortality by Approximately 50 Percent
• University of Rochester/Strong Health: First Steps and Measures to Reduce Sepsis Mortality

*CDC is not currently affiliated with any of these collaboratives.