Impact of an Antibiotic-specific Sepsis Bundle on Appropriate and Timely Antibiotic Administration for Severe Sepsis in the Emergency Department.

Background: Guidelines recommend initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy within 1 h of severe sepsis diagnosis. Few sepsis bundles exist in the literature emphasizing initiation of specific antibiotic therapy.

Objective: To determine the impact of an antibiotic-specific sepsis bundle on the timely initiation of appropriate antibiotics.

Reducing liver transplant length of stay: a Lean Six Sigma approach.

Context: Organ transplant centers are under increasing scrutiny to maintain outcomes while controlling cost in a challenging population of patients. Throughout health care and transplant specifically, length of stay is used as a benchmark for both quality and resource utilization.

Objective: To decrease our length of stay for liver transplant by using Lean Six Sigma methods.