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Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure is designed to improve the quality of care in patients hospitalized with heart failure. The program aims to help ensure that eligible patients are initiated on guideline recommended therapies and receive appropriate counseling prior to hospital discharge.
Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure was initiated in 2005 with over 500 U.S. hospitals participating is designed to improve the quality of care in patients hospitalized with heart failure. The program aims to help ensure that eligible patients are initiated on guideline recommended therapies and receive appropriate counseling prior to hospital discharge.
Peer-reviewed research(with over 35 manuscripts) has demonstrated that through participating in Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure, hospitals will provide equitable care (regardless of race, ethnicity, age, or gender), the importance of scheduled physician follow-up after heart failure hospital discharge, the value in device-support as necessary for the acute heart failure patient, and many other significant findings.
Achievement measures tracked through Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure:
Quality Measures tracked through Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure:
Additional measures collected by Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure can be viewed at: http://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@private/@hcm/@gwtg/documents/downloadable/ucm\_310967.pdf
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GWTG Heart Failure program | Other | Evidence based guideline recommended therapies and counseling prior to hospital discharge |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| 30 day readmission rate | Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 30 days | 30 days post discharge from hospital |
| 60 day readmission rate | Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 60 days | 60 days post discharge from hospital |
| 90 day readmission rate | Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 90 days | 90 days post discharge from hospital |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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The study populations is primary diagnosis or secondary diagnosis of heart failure
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Bennett, JD | Contact | 214-706-4881 | amy.bennett@heart.org | |
| Christine Rutan | Contact | 214-706-4881 | Christine.Rutan@heart.org |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Javed Butler, MD | American Heart Association | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Bennett | Recruiting | Dallas | Texas | 75231 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23747642 | Background | Yancy CW, Jessup M, Bozkurt B, Butler J, Casey DE Jr, Drazner MH, Fonarow GC, Geraci SA, Horwich T, Januzzi JL, Johnson MR, Kasper EK, Levy WC, Masoudi FA, McBride PE, McMurray JJ, Mitchell JE, Peterson PN, Riegel B, Sam F, Stevenson LW, Tang WH, Tsai EJ, Wilkoff BL; American College of Cardiology Foundation; American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Oct 15;62(16):e147-239. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.05.019. Epub 2013 Jun 5. No abstract available. | |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D006333 | Heart Failure |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| Background |
| American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine; American Nurses Association; American Society of Health-System Pharmacists; Heart Rhythm Society; Society of Hospital Medicine; Bonow RO, Ganiats TG, Beam CT, Blake K, Casey DE Jr, Goodlin SJ, Grady KL, Hundley RF, Jessup M, Lynn TE, Masoudi FA, Nilasena D, Pina IL, Rockswold PD, Sadwin LB, Sikkema JD, Sincak CA, Spertus J, Torcson PJ, Torres E, Williams MV, Wong JB; ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures; Peterson ED, Masoudi FA, DeLong E, Erwin JP 3rd, Fonarow GC, Goff DC Jr, Grady KL, Green LA, Heidenreich PA, Jenkins KJ, Loth A, Shahian DM. ACCF/AHA/AMA-PCPI 2011 performance measures for adults with heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and the American Medical Association-Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 May 15;59(20):1812-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.03.013. Epub 2012 Apr 23. No abstract available. |
| 36378758 | Derived | Rao VN, Mentz RJ, Coniglio AC, Kelsey MD, Fudim M, Fonarow GC, Matsouaka RA, DeVore AD, Caughey MC. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Hospitalized Heart Failure Outcomes in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. Circ Heart Fail. 2022 Nov;15(11):e009353. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.121.009353. Epub 2022 Nov 15. |