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Get With The Guidelines^SM (GWTG) is an evidence-based program for in-hospital quality improvement. It puts the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to work for hospitals, helping to ensure that the care they provide to coronary artery disease, stroke and heart failure patients is aligned with the latest scientific guidelines.

Most hospitals that implement Get With The Guidelines realize measurable results, including improved patient outcomes. It’s a difference that shows in the lives of patients and their families, in the satisfaction felt by caregivers empowered to do their best and in the financial health of participating hospitals.

Get With The Guidelines saves lives.

The goal of Get With The Guidelines is simple: to help your hospital save more lives by optimizing care for coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke patients. Likewise, the program helps maximize continuing quality of life for those patients and their families through improved outcomes and a reduction in recurring events.

Hospitals, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers who use Get With The Guidelines are armed with the latest evidence-based guidelines and immediate access to clinical decision support. That means clinicians and patients alike are assured that treatment is aligned with best-practice medicine and is therefore likely to produce improved patient outcomes.

Learn how to implement GWTG at your hospital and improve the quality of care for patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease, stroke and heart failure.

Get With The Guidelines uses the American Heart Associations’ Patient Management Tool^TM* (PMT), an online, interactive assessment and reporting system that provides patient-specific guideline information and tracks your hospital’s performance.

View fact sheets specific to GWTG–CAD, GWTG–HF and GWTG–Stroke and the new 30-Day Measures. Scientific publications demonstrate the effectiveness of the program. You’ll also find ongoing educational opportunities, including regional workshops, online accredited courses and Web conferences to keep you and your hospital at the cutting edge of scientific care.

What’s more, your hospital earns national and local recognition for implementing GWTG programs.  See the success stories and testimonials posted on this site, and learn strategies for publicizing your hospital’s success.

Get With The Guidelines – Turning Guidelines Into Lifelines^SM

 

 

 

 

 

Medtronic is a national sponsor of American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure program.

 

 

 

The GWTG–Stroke Web course is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim.  

* The Patient Management Tool^TM system is provided by Outcome, Cambridge, Mass.