Guideline-based standardized care is associated with substantially lower mortality in medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction: the American College of …

KA Eagle, CK Montoye, AL Riba, AC DeFranco… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - jacc.org
Objectives: We sought to assess the impact of the American College of Cardiology's
Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) project for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) care …

The association between guideline-based treatment instructions at the point of discharge and lower 1-year mortality in Medicare patients after acute myocardial …

AM Rogers, VS Ramanath, M Grzybowski, AL Riba… - American heart …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The American College of Cardiology's Guidelines Applied in Practice
(GAP) initiative for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been shown to increase the use of …

Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006

ED Peterson, BR Shah, L Parsons, CV Pollack Jr… - American heart …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Trends in the use of guideline-based treatment for acute myocardial
infarction (AMI) as well as its association with patient outcomes have not been summarized …

Enhancing quality of care for acute myocardial infarction: shifting the focus of improvement from key indicators to process of care and tool use: the American College of …

RH Mehta, CK Montoye, J Faul, DJ Nagle… - Journal of the American …, 2004 - jacc.org
Objectives: This project evaluated if by focusing on process changes and tool use rather
than key indicator rates, the use of evidence-based therapies in patients with acute …

Taking the national guideline for care of acute myocardial infarction to the bedside: developing the guideline applied in practice (GAP) initiative in Southeast Michigan

KA Eagle, M Gallogly, RH Mehta, PL Baker… - The Joint Commission …, 2002 - Elsevier
Article-at-a-Glance Background The Guideline Applied in Practice (GAP) program was
developed in 2000 to improve the quality of care by improving adherence to clinical practice …

An organized approach to improvement in guideline adherence for acute myocardial infarction: results with the Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program

WR Lewis, ED Peterson, CP Cannon… - Archives of Internal …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Background Evidence-based guidelines from the American Heart Association are voluntary,
and adherence is highly variable across the country. Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) is a …

Improving quality of care for acute myocardial infarction: The Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) Initiative

RH Mehta, CK Montoye, M Gallogly, P Baker, A Blount… - Jama, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
ContextQuality of care of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has received
intense attention. However, it is unknown if a structured initiative for improving care of …

Potential survival gains in the treatment of myocardial infarction

DP Chew, LT Huynh, D Liew, C Astley, A Soman… - Heart, 2009 - heart.bmj.com
Objectives: To evaluate the potential impact of complete implementation of guideline
recommendations in myocardial infarction (MI) care, and contrast this with new innovations …

Changes in myocardial infarction guideline adherence as a function of patient risk: an end to paradoxical care?

AA Motivala, CP Cannon, VS Srinivas, D Dai… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: The goals of this analysis were to determine: 1) whether guideline-based care
during hospitalization for a myocardial infarction (MI) varied as a function of patients' …

Compliance with guidelines and 1-year mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a prospective study

F Schiele, N Meneveau, MF Seronde… - European heart …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Aims In patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), mortality can be predicted by risk
scoring systems, but the impact of therapy recommended by guidelines is poorly …