Get With the Guidelines® Quality Research Publications | American Heart Association

The American Heart Association^®/American Stroke Association^® (AHA/ASA) collects millions of patient records in our Quality Programs, creating vast national level databases for advancing scientific research. Data is collected at the patient level in hospitals participating in AHA/ASA Quality programs. Patients entered in the database are from U.S. hospitals only. Data is patient- and hospital-de-identified at an aggregate level. Our quality programs include Get With The Guidelines^® (GWTG) In-Patient and Mission: Lifeline. A key component of these continuous quality improvement programs is the collection of data that participating hospitals can use for their own quality improvement efforts - See Hospital Level Research. There is also the opportunity for some scientific research from our National Level Database.

The Association also offers a cloud-based research data analysis platform with secure, private workspaces equipped with tools for data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The Precision Medicine Platform centralized data for teams to easily and quickly search, analyze, and securely share harmonized data. Researchers have the option to use the Precision Medicine Platform to conduct their own investigator-led data analysis of our quality improvement program data.