Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals Improve Evidence-Based Care And OutcomesCathy Lewis
Association of Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program participa- tion and clinical outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with ischemic stroke. Stroke. 2016;47:1294-1302. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA. 115.011874.Song S, Fonarow GC, Olson DM, et al. Association of get with the Guidelines-S...
The program includes specific up-to-date consensus statements and guidelines for resuscitation, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and stroke. Reference American Heart Association. http://www.heart.org/ HEARTORG/HealthcareResearch/ GetWithTheGuidelinesHFStroke/Get WithTheGuidelinesStrokeHomePage/Get-With...
Little is known about in-hospital care for hemorrhagic stroke. We examined quality of care in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) admissions in the national Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke) database, and compared them to ischemic stroke (IS) or TIA admiss...
Similar findings were seen when the data were examined by the duration of hospital participation in the program. CONCLUSIONS- These findings suggest that the majority of performance improvement in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program represent an increase in the number of patients with stroke ...
Background-Prior studies found that only about half of stroke patients arrived at hospitals via emergency medical services (EMSs), yet since then, there have been efforts to increase public awareness that time is brain. Using contemporary Get With the Guidelines-Stroke data, we assessed nationwide...
This study aims to describe the documented reasons for delays and the associations between reasons for delays and patient outcomes.Methods—We analyzed the characteristics of 55 296 patients who received intravenous alteplase in 1422 hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke from ...
This study develops a method to transform an existing registry into a nationally representative database to evaluate acute ischemic stroke care quality. Methods Two statistical approaches are used to develop post-stratification weights for the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry by anchoring ...
Synthesizing lessons learned from get with the guidelines: the value of disease-based registries in improving quality and outcomes. Background Baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) levels predict major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE: death, myocardial infarction, stroke, coronary revas......
This study aims to describe the documented reasons for delays and the associations between reasons for delays and patient outcomes.We analyzed the characteristics of 55 296 patients who received intravenous alteplase in 1422 hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke from October 2012 ...