Best Practices Center
This site is for both new Get With The Guidelines® users and existing users who want to sustain and enrich the quality they’ve already achieved through best practices.
This site is for both new Get With The Guidelines® users and existing users who want to sustain and enrich the quality they’ve already achieved through best practices.
Focus on Quality
One of the many ways we promote healthier lives is by supporting healthcare professionals’ quest for continuous quality improvement. Our suite of quality programs puts up-to-date treatment guidelines, tools and resources to work in hospitals and outpatient practices across the nation.
Get With The Guidelines® is a program that helps ensure consistent application of the most recent scientific guidelines for heart disease and stroke treatment. Get With The Guidelines includes in-hospital modules for heart failure and stroke as well as a module for outpatient practices.
Mission: Lifeline™ is a national, community-based initiative created by the American Heart Association to improve systems of care for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The program focuses on streamlining and coordinating processes to help speed the delivery of appropriate treatment.
Target: Heart Failure is an initiative that provides healthcare professionals with content-rich resources and materials designed to help them advance heart failure awareness, prevention, treatment and recovery.
Target: Stroke is a campaign created to help hospital teams achieve the goal of door-to-needle (DTN) times of 60 minutes or less for ischemic stroke patients that receive thrombolytic therapy by providing evidence-based strategies, clinical decision support, measurement tools and other resources.