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GWTG 20 Year Anniversary

Thank You For Twenty Years Of Get With The Guidelines®

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Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke

Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure

Get With The Guidelines® - Resuscitation

Get With The Guidelines® - AFib

Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease

Better Care Made Possible With The Help Of Hospitals And Facilities Like Yours

For the past 20 years, medical professionals have been using Get With The Guidelines to help apply the most up-to-date evidence-based treatment guidelines, helping patient outcomes improve. That's the simple truth behind the drive for our continuous quality improvement. Find out more about each of our Get With The Guidelines programs, which can help you advance farther and faster in the quest for ever-better care.

Get With The Guidelines® International

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association realized that patients globally deserved the benefits of healthcare professionals in their countries following the same up-to-date, evidence-based treatment guidelines set forth by Get With The Guidelines® in the United States. Learn how this new path for our organization may be right for your hospital. With a current focus on the Middle East, we will continue to help our mission grow worldwide. Find out more today - download our Integrated, Collaborative Approach to Care & Quality Improvement (PDF), created in collaboration with MENASO. In addition, we also offer a one-page document showing The Value of Stroke Center Certification.

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Get With The Guidelines® Quality Improvement Research Opportunities

Across Hospital/Health Systems, Early Career, National GWTG, and more - find out if there is a way for your team to get involved with the American Heart Association's Quality Research Team.

Learn more about our Quality Research Opportunities. (PDF)
Find out about our process with the Quality Improvement Research Roadmap. (PDF)

https://www.heart.org/en/professional/quality-improvement/quality-research-and-publications/featured-quality-research

Exploring Our Programs For The First Time? Discover Each Get With The Guidelines® Program Below

With twenty years of experience to build upon, find out more about how each program could work for your team.

Get With The Guidelines® Stroke

A proven way to improve stroke care: Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke is an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. Find out what it takes by downloading the Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Award Criteria (PDF)

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Get With The Guidelines® Heart Failure

Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure is an in-hospital program for improving care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. For a quick guide on our Hospital Recognition Criteria download our Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure and Target HF® guide. (PDF)

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Get With The Guidelines® Resuscitation

Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation (GWTG-R) has its roots in the American Heart Association's National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR), started in 1999 to collect resuscitation data from hospitals nationwide and create evidence-based guidelines for inpatient CPR. Find out more about the Get With The Guidelines - Resuscitation Hospital Recognition Criteria - we have a quick visual reference that can be found here. (PDF)

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Get With The Guidelines® AFib

Get With The Guidelines®-AFIB is designed to assist hospital care teams in consistently providing the latest evidence-based treatment for their AFib patients. At the same time, it offers a means of monitoring the quality of AFib care in U.S. hospitals and building a database for continued research and further quality improvement. Explore what goes into achieving it by downloading our Get With The Guidelines® - AFib Hospital Recognition Criteria. (PDF)

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Get With The Guidelines® Coronary Artery Disease

Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) is a disease registry designed to support acute myocardial infarction (AMI), CAD, and chest pain quality improvement activities. Download the Hospital Recognition Criteria Here:

Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease/Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Receiving Centers and Referring Hospitals (PDF)

Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease/Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Centers (PDF)

Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease/Mission: Lifeline STEMI Referring Hospitals (PDF)

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Get With The Guidelines® - Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) EMS Data Integration

Download our one-page document to see how the American Heart Association worked in harmony with major EMS software vendors that serve a large portion of EMS agencies across the US. This collaborative effort created a new workflow for clinical data abstractors to import EMS transport data using the NEMSIS 3.4 data standards directly into records in GWTG-CAD Registry.

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