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SSC Reaches Out With Educational Summits
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has announced its latest quality improvement initiative, the North American Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) Summits. The summits have been designed by the SSC and faculty from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's national critical care learning community, Improving Outcomes for High-Risk and Critically Ill Patients.
This series of in-person workshops, Web-based teleconferences, and extranet collaboration is appropriate for users of the SSC database. Hospital staff who use the database to collect and analyze outcomes and who have subsequently identified difficultly with particular bundle elements are welcome to join the program.
The North American Surviving Sepsis Campaign Summits are workshops for moderately experienced to advanced users of the Campaign’s tools who seek to accelerate their efforts by conducting rapid cycle testing and using a powerful method to drive process improvement (Plan-Do-Study-Act [PDSA] cycles).
Attendees will focus their efforts on areas identified by the SSC faculty as being most challenging to hospitals based upon data submitted to date. These areas include rapid antibiotic administration and establishing central access to achieve central venous pressure and ScvO2 (oxygen saturation) targets. Faculty will include R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, FCCM, Mitchell M. Levy, MD, FCCM, Christa A. Schorr, RN, BSN, and Sean R. Townsend, MD, as well as Jane A. Taylor, EdD, who will teach advanced methods in quality improvement.
Participants will travel to Miami, Florida or Denver, Colorado for two full-day meetings (one initial meeting and one follow-up meeting). In addition, participants will collaborate with faculty and their peers during two Web-based teleconferences. The entire program will span six months on each coast.
All costs for participants, including travel, will be covered by an unrestricted educational grant. Content is reviewed and approved by an oversight committee at SCCM and no industry representatives or guests will attend the meetings. No information of any sort about attendees or the content of the meetings will be shared with industry. The Campaign's statement on industry support is available at www.survivingsepsis.org.
Intensive care unit physician and nurse teams interested in participating may contact Lori Harmon, SCCM program manager, at +1 847 493-6403 or lharmon@sccm.org. Space is very limited. For more information, visit the Educational Opportunities section of www.survivingsepsis.org.
Tips for Collecting and Reporting SSC Data
If you are implementing the surviving sepsis bundles but not collecting data and reporting it, you are missing an important aspect of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. Meaningful data collection and transfer allow hospitals to review and evaluate performance and help staff set and achieve goals. It also is important to report data to the Campaign so it can evaluate its success worldwide and help you understand how your hospital compares to similar facilities. R. Philip Dellinger, MD, FCCM, offers several tips for data collection in the September 2006 issue of Campaign Update. Visit www.survivingsepsis.org for more information.
• Don’t be discouraged. Initial data collection often takes 45 minutes per chart, but with time hospitals usually average 15 to 20 minutes per chart.
• Tailor patient screening and data entry. Each hospital has different needs and resources. Various patient screening and data entry scenarios can be applied, including concurrent screening and data collection by a staff person or during rounds and retrospective chart audits.
• Get the data collection tool. The SSC provides a data collection tool that will help hospitals through this process. Download this tool at www.survivingsepsis.org or contact the Society of Critical Care Medicine to receive a CD-ROM and manual.
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