Impact of Automated Sepsis Metric Evaluation on Provider Performance

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (≥18 years) evaluated in the emergency department Clinical diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock during the emergency department encounter Cases meeting Centers for Medicare \& Medicaid Services (CMS) SEP-1 inclusion criteria Patient encounter managed by an attending emergency physician participating in the study Sepsis "time zero" occurring during the emergency department visit Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who do not meet CMS SEP-1 criteria for severe sepsis or septic shock Sepsis onset occurring prior to emergency department arrival or after hospital admission Encounters without sufficient clinical documentation to assess SEP-1 compliance Patients transferred from another facility with ongoing sepsis care already initiated Cases in which the attending physician of record is not assigned to a study arm