Get With The Guidelines^® Stroke

The Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke (Get With The Guidelines-S) program is the American Heart Association’s (AHA) in-hospital process for continuous quality improvement to improve stroke patient treatment and prevent future hospitalizations. The Get With The Guidelines-S PMT® system focuses on care team protocols to ensure that patients are treated and discharged on appropriate medications and with risk modification counseling.

As the largest stroke registry in the United States, the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program is used in more than 1,900 U.S. hospitals and users can benchmark their data with more than 1,600,000 patients.

Get With The Guidelines-S PMT is also available as an integrated solution for The Joint Commission accreditation and CMS reimbursement for the Stroke Core Measure to provide a comprehensive quality improvement and certification solution. It is also available as an integrated solution for hospitals participating in the Paul Coverdell stroke registries in many states.

Contact us to learn more or visit the AHA website at www.heart.org for additional information.

Stroke publications:

Fonarow G, Smith EE, Saver J, Reeves M, Bhatt D, Grau-Sepulveda M, Olson D, Hernandez A, Peterson E, Schwamm L. Timeliness of Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Patient Characteristics, Hospital Factors, and Outcomes Associated with Door-to-Needle Times within 60 Minutes. Circulation (online) 2011.

Fonarow G, Smith EE, Reeves M, Pan W, Olson D, Hernandez A, Peterson E, Schwamm L. Hospital Level Variation in Mortality and Rehospitalization for Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized with Ischemic Stroke. Stroke. 2011;42:159-166

Bushnell C, Zimmer L, Pan W, Olson D, Zhao X, Meteleva T, Schwamm L, Ovbiagele B, Williams L, LaBresh K, Peterson E. Persistence With Stroke Prevention Medications 3 Months After Hospitalization. (AVAIL) Arch Neurol. Published online August 9, 2010. doi:10.1001/archneurol.2010.190

Smith EE, Nandavar S, Dai D, Olson D, Reeves M, Saver J, Hernandez A, Peterson E, Fonarow G, Schwamm L. A Risk Score for In-Hospital Ischemic Stroke Mortality Derived and Validated within the Get With The Guidelines Stroke Program. Circulation(online) 2010.

Ovbiagele B, Schwamm L, Smith EE, Hernandez A, Olson D, Pan W, Fonarow G, Saver J. Patterns and Predictors of Discharge Statin Prescription Among Hospitalized Intracerebral Hemmorhage Patients. Stroke. 2010;41:00-00.

Menon B, Frankel M, Liang L, LaBresh K, Ellrodt G, Hernandez A, Fonarow G, Schwamm L, Smith EE. Rapid Change in Prescribing Behavior in Hospitals Participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke After Release of the MATCH Clinical Trial Results. Stroke. 2010;41:2094-2097

Ovbiagele B, Schwamm L, Smith E, Hernandez A, Olson D, Pan W, Fonarow G, Saver J. Recent Nationwide Trends In Discharge Statin Treatment of Hospitalized Stroke Patients. Stroke. 2010 Jul;41(7):1508-13. Epub 2010 May 27.

For a full list, please visit the AHA website.