In 2021, the Sepsis Care Improvement initiative transitioned to a fully-digitized approach to data extraction. The current data dictionaries have been designed to eliminate the need for manual chart abstraction and to permit hospitals to utilize their information technology staff and electronic record systems to extract the necessary data. Hospitals will then upload the extract to the Sepsis Data Collection Portal as a TXT or CSV file, according to the posted file template provided on the Data Dictionary page.