CEO SUMMARY: When Intermountain Healthcare began a quality improvement program to address sepsis, its sepsis mortality rate was 20.2%, among the lowest in the nation. By 2007, all 15 of its hospitals had deployed this program. A breakthrough came in recent years, when a phlebotomist was added to the team and contributed new insights into […]
Phlebotomy Contributes To Drop in Sepsis Mortality
Phlebotomist’s expertise on the team helped program cut the death rate from sepsis in half
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXIII, No. 2 - February 8, 2016 Issue
