Establishes sepsis programs to reduce sepsis rates and improve patient outcomes.
The SEPSIS Act aims to establish programs to reduce sepsis rates by enhancing education, data collection, and outcome measures. It mandates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lead an education campaign on sepsis best practices, improve pediatric sepsis data collection, and develop sepsis outcome measures. The Act also authorizes the creation of a voluntary sepsis honor roll for hospitals and requires annual briefings on sepsis activities. The legislation seeks to address the high rates of sepsis, which affect 1.7 million individuals annually and result in 350,000 deaths.
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