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- Title
Time to antibiotics for septic shock: evaluating a proposed performance measure.
- Authors
Venkatesh, Arjun K; Avula, Umakanth; Bartimus, Holly; Reif, Justin; Schmidt, Michael J; Powell, Emilie S
- Abstract
International guidelines recommend antibiotics within 1 hour of septic shock recognition; however, a recently proposed performance measure is focused on measuring antibiotic administration within 3 hours of emergency department (ED) arrival. Our objective was to describe the time course of septic shock and subsequent implications for performance measurement.
- Publication
The American journal of emergency medicine, 2013, Vol 31, Issue 4, p680
- ISSN
1532-8171
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.ajem.2012.12.008