
		QI Current Initiatives and Training Opportunities
		QI Primer
		QI Clinical Tools
		QI Resource Rooms

How
to Use

First
Steps
QI Resources

Download the Implementation Guide

Institutional Support

Needs/Resource Assessment

Stakeholders and Approval

Build a Team and Team Rules

Establish General Aims
Best
Practices
Why You Should Act

Core Measures

Guidelines

Literature Review

Understanding ACS
Analyze
Care Delivery
Needs/Resource Assessment

Process Flow Mapping
Track
Performance
Collection and Reporting

Structure Metrics

Process Metrics

Outcome Metrics

Trending Data

Assessing Processes

Clarify Aims

Building the Business Case
Reliable
Interventions
Multidisciplinary Teams

Plan-Do-Study-Act

Protocols and Reliability

Patient Education

Medication Safety and Polypharmacy

Comprehensive Educational Programs

Discharge and Transitions
Continue
to Improve
Learn from Variation in the Process

Hold the Gains and Spread Improvement
Education
Resources
Literature Review

Teaching and Learning Slide Sets

Bedside Teaching

Patient Education

Core Competencies

CME/CE

Awareness Campaigns
Clinical
Tools
Hospital Admission

Ordersets/Protocols

Care Maps

Discharge

Transitions

Risk Calculation

Other Tools
QI
Basics
QI Slide Sets

QI Web Resources

Core Competencies

Guidelines

ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Executive Summary
A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction). Anderson, J, et al. (AHA Journals Circulation 2007;116:803.)

View the ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines.

ACS Resource Room Project Team
This resource room is supported in part by an educational grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb / Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership.

Disclaimer
The Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Resource Room is an online resource for visitors to the Society of Hospital Medicine's website. All content and links have been reviewed by Acute Coronary Syndrome Resource Room Project Team, however the Society of Hospital Medicine does not exercise any editorial control over content associated with the external links that have been made available via this website.

About SHM Membership Education Quality Improvement Practice Resources Advocacy Events Publications
News and Media Join SHM SHM Store Home Login/Logout Career Center SHM Community QI Resource Rooms

©2008 Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). All rights reserved.

SHM National Office: 1500 Spring Garden, Suite 501, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Phone: 800.843.3360 | Fax: 267.702.2690 | Email: webmaster@hospitalmedicine.org.
Report a problem with this site.