Quality of evidence supporting Surviving Sepsis Campaign Recommendations

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INTRODUCTION: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines, released in 2017, are a combination of expert opinion and evidence-based medicine, adopted by many institutions as a standard of practice. The aim was to analyse the quality of evidence supporting recommendations on the management of sepsis.

METHODS: The strength and quality of evidence (high, moderate, low-very low and best practice statements) of each recommendation were extracted. Randomised controlled trials were required to qualify as high-quality evidence.

RESULTS: A total of 96 recommendations were formulated, and 87 were included. Among thirty-one (43%) strong recommendations, only 15.2% were supported by high-quality evidence. Overall, thirty-seven (42.5%) recommendations were based on low-quality evidence, followed by 28 (32.2%) based on moderate-quality, 15 (17.2%) were best practice statements and only seven (8.0%) were supported by high-quality evidence. Randomised controlled trials supported 21.4%, 9.5% and 8.6% recommendations on mechanical ventilation, resuscitation, and management/adjuvant therapy, respectively. In contrast, none high-quality evidence recommendation supported antimicrobial/source control (82.4% were low-very low evidence or best practice statements), and nutrition.

CONCLUSIONS: In the SSC guidelines most recommendations were informed by indirect evidence and non-systematic observations. While awaiting trials results, Delphi-like approaches or multi-criteria decision analyses should guide recommendations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine - 39(2020), 4 vom: 07. Aug., Seite 497-502

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rello, Jordi [VerfasserIn]
Tejada, Sofia [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Solé-Lleonart, Candela [VerfasserIn]
Campogiani, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Koulenti, Despoina [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira-Coimbra, João [VerfasserIn]
Lipman, Jeff [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antimicrobial administration
Clinical practice guidelines
Haemodynamic resuscitation
Journal Article
Mechanical ventilation
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Septic shock

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Date Completed 29.09.2021

Date Revised 29.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.accpm.2020.06.015

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NLM312268785