The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke development and impact on stroke care

The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke programme has changed stroke care delivery in the USA since its establishment in 2003. GWTG is a voluntary registry and continuous quality improvement initiative that collects data on patient characteristics, hospital adherence t...

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Autores principales: Ormseth, Cora H, Sheth, Kevin N, Saver, Jeffrey L, Fonarow, Gregg C, Schwamm, Lee H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5600018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28959497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/svn-2017-000092
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author Ormseth, Cora H
Sheth, Kevin N
Saver, Jeffrey L
Fonarow, Gregg C
Schwamm, Lee H
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description The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke programme has changed stroke care delivery in the USA since its establishment in 2003. GWTG is a voluntary registry and continuous quality improvement initiative that collects data on patient characteristics, hospital adherence to guidelines and inpatient outcomes. Implementation of the programme saw increased provision of evidence-based care and improved patient outcomes. This review will describe the development of the programme and discuss the impact on stroke outcomes and transformation of stroke care delivery that followed its implementation.
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spelling pubmed-56000182017-09-28 The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke development and impact on stroke care Ormseth, Cora H Sheth, Kevin N Saver, Jeffrey L Fonarow, Gregg C Schwamm, Lee H Stroke Vasc Neurol Review The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke programme has changed stroke care delivery in the USA since its establishment in 2003. GWTG is a voluntary registry and continuous quality improvement initiative that collects data on patient characteristics, hospital adherence to guidelines and inpatient outcomes. Implementation of the programme saw increased provision of evidence-based care and improved patient outcomes. This review will describe the development of the programme and discuss the impact on stroke outcomes and transformation of stroke care delivery that followed its implementation. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5600018/ /pubmed/28959497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/svn-2017-000092 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Saver, Jeffrey L
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Schwamm, Lee H
The American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke development and impact on stroke care
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