This month’s registry spotlight is on the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry through the American Heart Association.
Registry Partners’ Get With The Guidelines services team assists facilities and institutions nationwide with their Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry data collection efforts. We serve as a complete outsource solution or can augment the facility’s current data collection team to ensure high quality, timely and accurate data collection and submission.
Read on to learn more about the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry.
What is the Purpose of the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry?
The Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) is a disease registry designed to support acute myocardial infarction (AMI), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and chest pain quality improvement activities.
What are the Benefits of Participating in the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry?
According to the American Heart Association website, the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry has many benefits for hospital participants, some of which include:
- Immediate real-time access to Mission: Lifeline measures data and Mission: Lifeline reports
- NEW STEMI Referring Form to meet the needs of STEMI Referring Hospitals
- NEW Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Reporting Measures (Provides a more in-depth look at the STEMI System performance)
- The flow of Get With The Guidelines – Coronary Artery Disease is designed to align with patient throughput from entry into the system of care through discharge
- Expert consultative services by local, familiar American Heart Association Quality Improvement Staff
- Streamlined, robust yet lean, user-friendly data collection form
- STEMI only data submission option
- Ability to create custom data elements
- Multiple benchmarking options, including benchmarking against Mission: Lifeline regions
- Cost-effective access to AMI data through Super User Portal
- Perfect for State Department of Health access
- Value add for Corporate/Health System data surveillance
- Direct access for Mission: Lifeline Regional Systems of Care leadership
- Time Tracker
- Patient-level Feedback Forms
What are the 2020 Mission: Lifeline® Measures for Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry?
STEMI Receiving Center Recognition Measures
- Arrival to PCI ≤90 minutes
- ASA on Discharge
- Beta Blocker on Discharge
- ACEI/ARB on Discharge
- EMS FMC to PCI ≤90 minutes or ≤120 minutes – when EMS drive time ≥45 minutes AND when Door to Balloon ≤30 minutes
- Statin therapy on Discharge
In addition to the above measures, hospitals must also meet minimum achievement for at least 2 out of the 4 measures below:
- ASA on Arrival
- Smoking Cessation Counseling
- Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (85%)
- Cardiac Rehab Referral from an Inpatient Setting
STEMI Receiving Center Plus Measure: Arrival to First Facility to PCI ≤120 Minutes
STEMI Receiving Center Reporting Measures (not used for Mission: Lifeline recognition analysis)
- Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (One of the four optional recognition measures)
- Door In – Door Out of ED ≤30 minutes
- Arrival to Referring Hospital to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes (patients transferred for PCI)
- Arrival to Referring Hospital to Transfer Out ≤45 Minutes (patients transferred for PCI)
- % STEMI alerts (Cath lab activations) with pre-hospital notification
- Cardiac Rehab Referral (One of the four optional recognition measures)
- Time from FMC (at or before arrival at the first hospital) to PCI ≤120 minutes (no lytics, transfer for PCI patients)
STEMI Referring Hospital Recognition Measures
- Arrival to 12 Lead ECG ≤10 minutes
- Door In – Door Out ≤45 minutes
- ASA on Arrival
- ASA on Discharge
- Beta Blocker on Discharge
- Stain therapy on Discharge
- ACEI/ARB on Discharge
- Smoking Cessation Counseling
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