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• Compliance with Severe Sepsis Bundles (with the Goal of Reducing Mortality)
  Measuring compliance with the Severe Sepsis Bundles will allow your team to judge how well your institution is performing in achieving the goal of 100 percent compliance with all Severe Sepsis Bundles elements.
• Glycemic Control Goal
  Current literature suggests appropriate glycemic control in the ICU reduces morbidity and overall mortality in the critically ill.
• Measures: Deploy Rapid Response Teams
  Care teams should measure key components of deploying Rapid Response Teams recommended in the How-to Guide: Deploy Rapid Response Teams.
• Measures: Prevent Adverse Drug Events (Medication Reconciliation)
  Care teams should measure each of the evidence-based interventions for preventing adverse drug events using medication reconciliation recommended in the How-to Guide: Prevent Adverse Drug Events (Medication Reconciliation).
• Measures: Prevent Central Line Infection
  Care teams should measure each of the evidence-based interventions recommended by the How-to Guide: Prevent Central Line Infection.
• Measures: Prevent Harm from High-Alert Medications
  Care teams should measure each of the key interventions recommended in the How-to Guide: Prevent Harm from High-Alert Medications.
• Percent of Clean Surgery Patients with Surgical Infection
  Care teams seeking to prevent surgical site infection are encouraged to collect data on this outcome measure and other measures recommended in the How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection.
• Reliability: Severe Sepsis Bundles
  The percent of cases of severe sepsis and/or septic shock for whom all applicable Severe Sepsis Bundles elements are completed.
• Remeasure Lactate If Initial Lactate Was Elevated Goal
  Compliance with this element in the Severe Sepsis Bundles (as part of the 6-Hour Septic Shock Bundle) is defined as the percent of patients following septic shock or lactate ≥4 mmol/L (36 mg/dl) identification for whom the lactate was repeated during the first 6 hours after presentation.