stroke outcomesquality improvement initiativesBackground: Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke is a national, hospital-based quality improvement program developed by the American Heart Association. While studies have shown a beneficial effect of hospital participation in GWTG-Stroke upon processes of ...
US hospitals participating in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association "Get With The Guidelines–Stroke" (GWTG-Stroke) quality-improvement program provide a higher quality of care than hospitals not participating in the initiative, a new study shows. "While we didn't see 'day and...
strokeBackground and Purpose—Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke is a national, hospital-based quality improvement program developed by the American Heart Association. Although studies have suggested improved processes of care in GWTG-Stroke–participating hospitals, it is not known whet...
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 ...
The Get With The Guidelines–Atrial Fibrillation (GWTG-AFIB) program is provided by the American Heart Association. GWTG-AFIB is sponsored, in part, by Bristol Myers Squibb Pfizer, Tylenol, and Philips Image Guided Therapy. Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funders had no role in the design ...
The U.S. lacks a stroke surveillance system. This study develops a method to transform an existing registry into a nationally representative database to evaluate acute ischemic stroke care quality. Two statistical approaches are used to develop post-stra
Using Get With The Guidelines—Heart Failure (GWTG–HF) registry data for both HFpEF and patients with HFrEF, we sought, first, to assess the association between BMI and in-hospital mortality according to race/ethnicity; and, second, to determine associations between BMI and 30-day and 1-...
The American Heart Association get with the guidelines program Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) is a hospital-based quality improvement initiative created by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke A... LA Smaha - 《American Heart Journal》 被引量: 472发表: 2004年 Get with...
Methods: A retrospective review of acute ischemic stroke patients was conducted from 2009-2016 in 11 Midwest states (IN, IL, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, SD, and WI) using the American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Stroke database. Annual trends using rate per 10,...