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The American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines^® - Coronary Artery Disease STEMI and NSTEMI Registry 

Contact MissionLifeline@heart.org for pricing information

Benefits to enrolling in Get With The Guidelines - Coronary Artery Disease:

• Immediate real-time access to Mission: Lifeline measures data and Mission: Lifeline reports
• NEW STEMI Referring Form to meet the needs of STEMI Referring Hospitals
• NEW Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Reporting Measures (Provides more in depth look at the STEMI System performance)
• The flow of Get With The Guidelines - Coronary Artery Disease is designed to align with patient throughput from entry into the system of care through discharge
• Expert consultative services by local, familiar AHA Quality Improvement Staff
• Streamlined, robust yet lean, user friendly data collection form
• STEMI only data submission option
• Ability to create custom data elements
• Multiple benchmarking options, including benchmarking against Mission: Lifeline regions
• Cost effective access to AMI data through Super User Portal
• Perfect for State Department of Health access
• Value add for Corporate/Health System data surveillance
• Direct access for Mission:Lifeline Regional Systems of Care leadership
• Time Tracker
• Patient level Feedback Forms

Get With The Guidelines^®- Coronary Artery Disease Tools

• Get With The Guidelines - CAD Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Get With The Guidelines - CAD Top Ten Reasons to Participate (PDF)
• Get With The Guidelines - CAD Authorized Vendors (PDF)
• 2019 Mission: Lifeline Recognition Fact Sheet (PDF)

2020 Mission: Lifeline^® Measures

STEMI Receiving Center Recognition Measures

• Arrival to PCI ≤90 minutes
• ASA on Discharge
• Beta Blocker on Discharge
• ACEI/ARB on Discharge
• EMS FMC to PCI ≤90 minutes or ≤120 minutes - when EMS drive time ≥45 minutes AND when Door to Balloon ≤30 minutes
• Statin therapy on Discharge

In addition to the above measures, hospitals must also meet minimum achievement for at least 2 out of the 4 measures below:

• ASA on Arrival 
• Smoking Cessation Counseling
• Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (85%)
• Cardiac Rehab Referral from an Inpatient Setting

STEMI Receiving Center Plus Measure: Arrival to First Facility to PCI ≤120 Minutes

STEMI Receiving Center Reporting Measures (not used for Mission: Lifeline recognition analysis)

• Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (One of the four optional recognition measures)
• Door In – Door Out of ED ≤30 minutes
• Arrival to Referring Hospital to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (patients transferred for PCI)
• Arrival to Referring Hospital to Transfer Out ≤45 Minutes (patients transferred for PCI)
• % STEMI alerts (Cath lab activations) with pre-hospital notification
• Cardiac Rehab Referral (One of the four optional recognition measures)
• Time from FMC (at or before arrival at the first hospital) to PCI ≤120 minutes (no lytics, transfer for PCI patients)

STEMI Referring Hospital Recognition Measures

• Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes
• Door In – Door Out ≤45 minutes
• ASA on Arrival
• ASA on Discharge
• Beta Blocker on Discharge
• Stain therapy on Discharge
• ACEI/ARB on Discharge
• Smoking Cessation Counseling

NEW - STEMI Referring Plus Measure - Door In - Door Out ≤30 minutes

For more information on Get With The Guidelines - Coronary Artery Disease and/or Mission: Lifeline participation, contact GWTG-CAD/Mission: Lifeline