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Bending the Value Curve

Surviving Sepsis Screening: The Unintended Consequences of Continuous Surveillance

Wade N. Harrison, Jennifer K. Workman, Christopher P. Bonafide and Justin M. Lockwood
Hospital Pediatrics December 2020, 10 (12) e14-e17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2020-002121
Wade N. Harrison
aPediatric Residency Program and Divisions of Pediatric Inpatient Medicine and
bDivision of Hospital Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;
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Jennifer K. Workman
cCritical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah;
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Christopher P. Bonafide
dSection of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
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Justin M. Lockwood
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Seven hours into her overnight shift, Dr Carter opens the computer to complete her sixth admission of the evening. “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” her pager interrupts with “Sepsis Alert,” the fourth in the past 48 hours for a 12-year-old boy with metabolic disease, technology dependence, and paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity who was admitted 1 week ago for dehydration and increased storming. She leaves her computer to attend the mandatory bedside huddle. The result is the same as the 3 previous ones: storming caused his fever and tachycardia, not sepsis; no change to management. As Dr Carter writes a progress note documenting the huddle, her pager erupts again, requesting orders for her other patient.

Pediatric severe sepsis in the United States costs $7.3 billion annually, one-fifth of pediatric hospitalization costs.1 Over the past 2 decades, professional organizations have built awareness, developed guidelines, and driven efforts to recognize sepsis and intervene early in its course.2,3 Early initiatives began in emergency departments (EDs), although state legal mandates and national quality improvement collaboratives have led to implementation hospital-wide, including in general inpatient units.4,5

Most guidelines frame their recommendations around sepsis response systems that incorporate clinical decision support tools (hereinafter referred to as sepsis scores) to identify suspected sepsis and trigger time-sensitive bundles of laboratory evaluation, intravenous fluid resuscitation, …

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Wade N. Harrison, Jennifer K. Workman, Christopher P. Bonafide, Justin M. Lockwood
Hospital Pediatrics Dec 2020, 10 (12) e14-e17; DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2020-002121

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Wade N. Harrison, Jennifer K. Workman, Christopher P. Bonafide, Justin M. Lockwood
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