The tool captures the information described in the Severe Sepsis Bundles and translates it into a format ready for tabulation at the end of a monthly data collection effort.  This tool can be used for concurrent, prospective, or retrospective data collection.  However, individual hospitals are strongly encouraged to choose a single approach and maintain that collection over time. 

Improvement efforts without standard practices are almost certainly doomed to failure.  It is essential to standardize the data collection process for your improvement effort.  The use of this abstraction tool will allow you to quickly gather the required data and put it in a format acceptable for inclusion in your monthly results. 

Attach this Sepsis Database Individual Chart Measurement Tool to each chart of a patient with severe sepsis or septic shock at the time of data abstraction.  The data for collection can be found in familiar places in the chart after a few reviews have been completed.  The objective is to collect a single Sepsis Database Individual Chart Measurement Tool for each patient with severe sepsis.  

Each Sepsis Database Individual Chart Measurement Tool should be entered into the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Chart Review database.