Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Measure Stewards' Assessment of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Position Paper on SEP-1.

An editorial is presented on the Clinical Infectious Diseases, Rhee and colleagues have presented the Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA's) position paper outlining has proposed revisions to SEP-1, the U.S. first sepsis quality measure. Topics include SEP-1 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has signaled that early treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock is a national priority, and the measure was launched in 2015 because hospitalization rates for sepsis.