Sepsis
Sepsis is a leading cause of in-hospital mortality. International efforts over the past decade have shown that improved sepsis care can save lives. Treatment bundles focused on severe sepsis and septic shock have been developed, and providers are beginning to focus on the early recognition and treatment of sepsis in the emergency department.
Articles
Surviving Sepsis: How to Improve 
Society of Critical Care Medicine. Core strategies to guide improvement in implementing evidence-based sepsis control guidelines.
Surviving Sepsis: going beyond the guidelines
Annals of Intensive Care, 2011, 1:17. An examination of the surviving sepsis campaign bundle and provides an evidence-based approach to the initial resuscitation of patients with severe sepsis.
Development and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Sepsis Protocol
CriticalCareNurse 26(3), June 2006, 43-54. This article describes the use of sepsis protocols by the multidisciplinary care team.
Nursing Considerations to complement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines
Critical Care Medicine, July 2011, 39(7), 1800-18. This article reviews the best available evidence for sepsis prevention, and describes the role of nursing in providing care to patients with severe sepsis.
Reports
In Focus: A National Look at Sepsis
Institute for Healthcare Information (CIHI), 2009. This report looks at sepsis-related hospitalizations and mortality in Canada. 
Presentation
Becoming a High Reliability Organization: Operational Advice for Hospital Leaders — “Appendix F. Case Studies in High Reliability Applications: EICU and Sepsis Prevention at Christiana Care”
This section of the report describes Christiana Care Hospital's use of several process changes to create and sustain a sepsis alert campaign, and improve overall patient care.
IHI Improvement Map: Sepsis Detection and Management
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI Improvement Map is an interactive tool that helps hospital leaders in the United States improve quality outcomes by guiding their improvement efforts.
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Tools
Society of Critical Care Medicine. The Society and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement have developed a suite of tools to prevent sepsis.
The American College of Emergency Physicians, Surviving Sepsis Campaign
