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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

Other Tools

Strategies and Therapies for Reducing Ischemic and Vascular Events (STRIVE™):
STEMI/UA/NSTEMI TOOLKIT
In addition to offering several avenues to obtain continuing medical education, STRIVE™ offers toolkits via their ACS Critical Pathways Site, to help the healthcare team when managing a patient with ACS across the care continuum.
View the STEMI/UA/NSTEMI TOOLKIT.

American Heart Association (AHA) Get with the Guidelines (GWTG)
The AHA has made available sample process documents via their GWTG program.
View the sample process documents.

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

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