Get With The Guidelines® (GWTG) is a hospital-based quality improvement initiative created by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association (ASA). The goal of this initiative is to improve the care of patients with cardiac diseases and stroke while supporting the AHA mission to reduce death and disability due to cardiovascular diseases and stroke. It is evidence-based and founded on the American College…
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) combined their respective national bariatric surgery accreditation programs into a single unified program to achieve one national accreditation standard for bariatric surgery centers: the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®).
National Cardiovascular Data Registry
The National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®) is the American College of Cardiology’s suite of cardiovascular data registries helping hospitals and private practices measure and improve the quality of care they provide.
National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
The American College of Surgeon’s (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) program allows participating facilities to collect preoperative risk factors, perioperative information, and report 30-day outcomes of their surgical patients. Participating facilities use a random sampling method to select surgical cases and collect a number of variables for each case that can vary depending on the procedure performed. Data for each case is entered into…