ACDIS update: What sepsis criteria are you using?

It seems that each month, there’s news about sepsis in CDI. Whether it be changing definitions (hello, sepsis-3) or sequencing guidelines, CDI professionals know that when it comes to sepsis, the ground is often unstable.

As with any troublesome diagnoses, having a set of criteria accepted and used at your facility can help with formulating queries and educational efforts. But, choosing which sepsis criteria to use can be a bit of a toss-up. Plus, using particular sepsis criteria could open you up to denials with CMS still using sepsis-2 criteria officially and many third-party payers using sepsis-3.

In order to take the pulse of the CDI community, ACDIS recently published a polling question probing the prevalence of various sepsis criteria. The answer options include:

• Sepsis-2
• Sepsis-3
• A facility-specific set of criteria
• Not applicable

Please take a moment to respond to our quick poll. It’s a great way to spend your next coffee break and the results will be shared with the ACDIS community to help you clear some of the sepsis criteria fog.

To learn more about how ACDIS uses polling data and how you can use the data gleaned from the polling questions, click here.