Implementation of point-of-care blood gas testing at a large community hospital: Cost analysis, sepsis bundle compliance, and employee engagement.

Introduction/background: Point-of-care testing (POCT) platforms support patient-centered approaches to health care delivery and may improve patient care. We evaluated implementation of a POCT platform at a large, acute care hospital in the Midwestern United States.

Methods: We used lactate testing as part of a sepsis bundle protocol to evaluate compliance and mortality outcomes.