Turning Guidelines into Lifelines™

Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure puts the expertise of the American Heart Association to work for hospital teams, helping to ensure that the care they provide to heart failure patients is aligned with the latest scientific guidelines.

Most hospitals that implement the Get With The Guidelines-HF quality improvement program realize measurable results. It’s a difference that shows in the lives of patients and their families, in the satisfaction felt by caregivers empowered to do their best and in the financial health of participating hospitals.

Improving Quality to Save More Lives

The goal is simple: to help your hospital save more lives by optimizing care for heart failure patients. Progress toward that end is born out by studies showing reductions in mortality rates. Likewise, Get With The Guidelines-HF helps maximize continuing quality of life for those patients and their families through improved outcomes and fewer recurring events.

Hospitals, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers who use Get With The Guidelines are armed with the patient-specific guideline information and immediate access to clinical decision support through the American Heart Association’s Patient Management Tool™* (PMT), an online, interactive assessment and reporting system. Using the PMT, hospitals can track their program performance and pinpoint areas for improvement.

The Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) program is provided by the American Heart Association.  The Get With The Guidelines-HF program is currently supported in part by Medtronic. Get With The Guidelines-HF has been funded in the past through support from GlaxoSmithKline.

* The Patient Management Tool™ system is provided by Outcome, Cambridge, Mass.