Insights
When Every Minute Counts
The Power of Timely Sepsis Insights
In sepsis, every minute counts. Timely treatment is associated with lower mortality rates, lower costs, and improved hospital performance. But acting quickly isn’t easy. Sepsis can be difficult to detect in its early stages, and heavy workloads add to the challenge. To empower care teams to drive swift interventions, hospitals need a combination of prompt insights, actionable data, and expert input.
Overcoming the Barriers to Timely Sepsis Care
While early intervention is critical, hospitals face major obstacles to delivering timely care—which is why Q-Centrix provides hospitals with the support they need to respond quickly and elevate sepsis care.
| Challenge | Impact | How Q-Centrix Helps |
|---|---|---|
| Early detection | Sepsis symptoms are non-specific and subjective, particularly in the first few hours—making it challenging to spot early. | Q-Centrix’s clinical data experts review newly admitted patients daily and deliver insights within 24 hours, enabling providers to act quickly. |
| Busy staff | Heavy workloads and staffing shortages contribute to delays in administering sepsis treatment. | By handling concurrent and retrospective reviews, Q-Centrix reduces administrative burdens so that clinical staff can focus on direct patient care. |
| Documentation challenges | Incomplete, inconsistent, or unclear documentation makes it difficult to track treatment gaps, identify performance needs, and comply with sepsis bundle requirements. | Q-Centrix experts identify documentation gaps and fallout trends, providing targeted feedback for documentation improvement. |
| Capacity strain | When hospitals experience high patient volumes, staff have even less time to focus on early recognition of sepsis. | Q-Centrix’s ongoing reviews and actionable insights give hospitals the bandwidth to identify sepsis cases quickly—even when volumes are high. |
Sepsis 360: A Targeted Solution for Improving
Sepsis Outcomes
To detect and treat sepsis quickly, having timely insights is critical. Through Sepsis 360, Q-Centrix combines concurrent review, retrospective review, and documentation improvement to help hospitals promptly identify gaps and guide improvements.
Concurrent Review
Our team of clinical data experts reviews newly admitted patients daily, evaluating protocol adherence while the patient is still in your care. Within 24 hours, our experts deliver actionable data to care teams, available via dashboards in our technology stack, Q-Apps®. These insights give care teams the information they need to address sepsis concerns before discharge and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Retrospective Review
Once the patient has been discharged, our experts curate high-quality sepsis data for submission to CMS, helping facilities meet compliance guidelines, maximize reimbursement, and achieve higher industry ratings.
Documentation Improvement
Our data experts work with your team to uncover insights from both the concurrent and retrospective reviews. On a regular basis, our experts deliver performance reports, share learnings, highlight documentation gaps and fallout trends, and enable your team to implement performance improvement initiatives more effectively.
Conclusion
Responding quickly to sepsis is becoming increasingly challenging. Between the aging population and the anticipated shortage of about 100,000 critical healthcare workers in the coming years, hospitals may soon be facing greater difficulties responding quickly to sepsis cases. Overcoming these barriers to facilitate early detection and treatment of sepsis will require a coordinated approach and actionable data that empower teams to act without delay. With timely insights, accurate clinical data, and a dedicated team of experts, hospitals will be better positioned to drive better sepsis outcomes and implement lasting improvements in patient care.
