Connecting with patients and families during COVID-19 – Part 1

For decades, clinicians have known that effective intervention in sepsis cases relies universally on early diagnosis. Yet, despite this fact, sepsis remains a tough challenge.  One in three patients dying in the hospital will have sepsis. Even more importantly for documentation, 87 percent of patients in the hospital with sepsis had it before admission. This episode examines ways to improve both diagnosis and documentation for sepsis patients in order to improve care and reduce the ill effects on clinicians and hospitals. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guest: Linda Wiseman, BSN, RN, CCDS Senior Consulting Director Clinical Documentation Improvement Vizient Show Notes: [01:16] Differing criteria [01:48] Need to document early [02:38] Two classifications [03:10] SOFA/Sepsis-3 [03:36] SIRS criteria [04:53] SOFA criteria [06:13] What to document on admission Links | Resources: To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com Linda’s email: linda.wiseman@vizientinc.com Subscribe Today! Apple Podcasts Amazon Podcasts Android Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS Feed