15 ISC NEWS DAY 2 | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2025 StrokeConference.org #ISC25 more than 7.5 million patient records into its database, providing a robust resource for hospitals and physicians. Steven Messe, MD, professor of neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, will highlight examples of how hospitals and other clinical facilities benefited from Get With The Guidelines in his presentation, “Putting Your Data to Work: How to Utilize Data to Identify Gaps in Stroke Patient Care.” Messe said the Get With The Guidelines program allows sites to use local data to identify gaps in care quality, including prehospital, in-hospital and systems-of-care issues. The program also provides access to up-to-date research and scientific publications, professional education opportunities such as workshops and webinars, clinical tools and resources, and patient education resources to help physicians optimize patient outcomes. “This database provides powerful tools and insights into the care of patients,” he said. “This allows clinical sites to work on the issues that are most important to them or to focus on where they have identified concerns.” One hospital, for example, used the data to identify a discrepancy in how fast it initiated thrombolytic treatment in ischemic stroke patients seen during regular work hours, compared with those seen at night via telemedicine. “They instituted several practice changes and dramatically improved the time to treatment at night, decreasing the telemedicine door-to-needle times from a median of 48 minutes to 30 minutes,” he said. Another hospital used Get With The Guidelines data to improve documentation of intracerebral hemorrhage severity, a key component of Comprehensive Stroke Center certification. A third hospital demonstrated that adding a stroke-trained nurse to all coded stroke evaluations led to dramatic improvements in treatment times. “That included a 41-minute decrease in door-to-needle times with 100% of patients receiving thrombolytic treatment within 45 minutes, compared to 50% prior to the change,” he said. Three additional presentations will address other data tools and how they are being used to improve stroke outcomes: • “A Long Road Ahead: Improving Stroke Patient Outcomes Through Health Equity Data Collection,” by Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, MS, chair of neurology at the University of Chicago. • “Data Linkage to Monitor and Improve Care Processes and Outcomes Following Acute Stroke: Value, Faculty and Methods,” by Matthew Reeves, BVSc, PhD, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Michigan State University. • “Standardizing Population-Based Data Analysis in Canada to Reliably Measure and Compare Stroke Outcomes,” by Amy Y.X. Yu, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. OUTCOMES continued from page 5 #ISC26 strokeconference.org See You Next Year in New Orleans! Pre-Conference Sessions February 3, 2026 ISC Sessions February 4–6, 2026 Abstract Submission opens May 28, 2025 Messe “They instituted several practice changes and dramatically improved the time to treatment at night, decreasing the telemedicine door-to-needle times from a median of 48 minutes to 30 minutes.” –Steven Messe, MD The American Stroke Association is grateful for the continued support and generosity of our exhibitors and sponsors. We want to recognize the following companies for their additional sponsorship and advertising opportunities. • AstraZeneca • BMS/Janssen Alliance • Boston Scientific • Chiesi • Encompass Health • Johnson & Johnson MedTech • Medscape • Medtronic • MicroTransponder, Inc. • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) • NeuraSignal • Neurologica • RapidAI • Sevaro • TeleSpecialists • Terumo Neuro • Total CME • Vituity • VoxMedia • Wolters Kluwer Educational grant support provided by: • Boston Scientific Corporation • Chiesi USA, Inc. • DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., d/b/a Cerenovus
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