Every year, almost 250,000 people experience ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) - the deadliest type of heart attack. Unfortunately, a significant number don't receive prompt reperfusion therapy, which is critical in restoring blood flow. Worse yet, 30 percent of STEMI victims don't receive reperfusion treatment at all.
Mission: Lifeline® seeks to save lives by closing the gaps that separate STEMI patients from timely access to appropriate treatments.
Although Mission: Lifeline is focusing on improving the system of care for the nearly 250,000 patients who suffer from a STEMI each year, improving that system will ultimately improve care for all heart attack patients.
The Mission: Lifeline Summary Table provides an easy reference tool that helps disseminate each STEMI system component. The table identifies each component definition, ideal strategy, resources, metrics and preliminary criteria.
Reports Mission: Lifeline Systems Reports Mission: Lifeline will soon be releasing the quarterly system level reports to any system whose hospitals participate in ACTION Registry® - GWTG™. Please note that in order to obtain the quarterly system reports, a consent must be completed on behalf of the system and sent to www.ncdr.org. Systems can choose to have their data blinded or un-blinded. For questions, see our Systems Report FAQ. Please chose only one of the consents: Blinded Data Consent Form Un-blinded Data Consent Form View a sample system report. Want to Receive Your Report? Access the links and fill out the below forms: Hospital Registration Form Form for individual hospital registrations. By registering your hospital, you will receive regular Mission: Lifeline updates and Mission: Lifeline reports. Hospital Data Consent Release Form Additional form for Mission: Lifeline registered hospitals that are in ACTION Registry-GWTG and would like Mission: Lifeline reports. Be sure to check out a receiving center sample report. How is the data analyzed? Use the links below to access the Interpretation Manual and Glossary: Mission: Lifeline Receiving Center Interpretation Manual Mission: Lifeline Receiving Center Glossary | Recognition Is your hospital interested in receiving a 2011 Mission: Lifeline Award? To be eligible:
All eligible hospitals for a 2011 award will be contacted by Mission: Lifeline in Spring 2011. For more information on the Mission: Lifeline Recognition Achievement Measures, click here or for more information contact Mission: Lifeline. *For those sites that do not meet volume requirements, hospital data can be aggregated for a year if the hospital is a critical access hospital as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. | Accreditation Mission: Lifeline and the Society of Chest Pain Centers announce a new hospital Accreditation program. For more details visit the official press release. The Mission: Lifeline Accreditation Program will acknowledge STEMI Systems, EMS, Non-PCI/STEMI Referral Centers and PCI/STEMI-Receiving Centers for their efforts to improve quality of care for STEMI patients. This is a final level of involvement. For more information on the Mission: Lifeline Accreditation Criteria, click here. For more information on Society of Chest Pain Centers, visit http://www.scpcp.org/. Breaking News Quality Achievement Award Hospitals Recognized in ad in USNWR Best Hospitals edition.
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Multimedia Mission: Lifeline Summary Presentations Mission: Lifeline Powerpoint (Blue) Mission: Lifeline Powerpoint (White) Past Customer Webinars Mission: Lifeline Latest Science for STEMI Systems Mission: Lifeline Community Social Networking Tool Mission: Lifeline Hospital Reports Mission: Lifeline Hospital Recognition Mission: Lifeline Receiving and Referral Hospital Reports | Articles and Editorials Wang et al. “Association of Door-In to Door-Out Time With Reperfusion Delays and Outcomes Among Patients Transferred for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.” Read Article Underwood, J. et al. The Role of the Emergency Nurse in Improving Care of the Patient With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Perspectives of the RACE Nurse Leadership. Journal of Emergency Nursing. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 330-335. Read article Kumbhani, B. et al. Association of Hospital Angioplasty Volume in STEMI with Quality Outcomes. JAMA. November 23, 2009:302:20. Read article Wang, Tracy. et al. "The Dissociation Between Door-to-Balloon Time Improvement and Improvements in Other Acute Myocardial Infarction Care Processes and Patient Outcomes." Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(15):1411-1419. Read article (subscription needed) American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline - A Call to Arms for Emergency Medicine. Read more ST-Elevation and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Clinical Performance Measures: Promise for Progress. Read more | Related Sites Heart Disease and Stroke. You're the Cure.
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