A55 CRITICAL CARE: SIRS, QSOFA, SEPSIS - WHAT'S IN A NAME?: The New York State Mandated Public Reporting Initiative For Sepsis

Rationale- The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) began an initiative in 2013 aimed to improve the early recognition and prompt treatment of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock across all hospitals in the state ("Rory's Regulations"), with the objective of decreasing preventable mortality and morbidity. For those patients where the protocol was not initiated, risk-adjusted mortality did not change over the study period (OR = 1.003, p = 0.247), while those that had the protocol initiated experienced a 1.1% decrease in the odds of mortality for each additional month since the start of the regulations (OR = 0.989, p < 0.001).