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Disease-Specific Care (DSC)

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Clinical Information Managment (CT)

Topic	Status	Publish Date
After Hours Cleaning Service and Medical Records	Current	May 13, 2009
Texting Orders	New	November 10, 2011

Delivering of Facilitating Clinical Care (DF)

Topic	Status	Publish Date
ACLS Training	Current	May 13, 2009
Certified Medical Education	Current	May 13, 2009
Clinical Practice Guidelines	Current	May 13, 2009
Complete the Dysphagia Screen	Current	May 13, 2009
Education and Initial Certification Review	Current	May 13, 2009
GWTG –Stroke Program	Current	May 13, 2009
Physician Order IV Thrombolytic	Current	May 13, 2009
Primary Source Verification	Current	May 13, 2009
Primary Stroke Center Neurosurgeon Requirement	Current	May 13, 2009
Stroke Team	Current	May 13, 2009
Stroke Unit and Continuing Education	Current	May 13, 2009
Swallow Screen Evaluation	Current	May 13, 2009
Use of the NIH Stroke Scale	Current	May 13, 2009
Who is required to have the eight hours of continuing stroke education annually?	Current	May 07, 2009

Performance Measurement (PM)

Topic	Status	Publish Date
Data and Initial Certification Review	Current	May 13, 2009
Definition of Acute Stroke	Current	May 13, 2009
Development of Stroke Performance Measures	Current	May 13, 2009
Differences of the GWTG-Stroke Program	Current	May 13, 2009
Dysphagia Screen	Current	May 13, 2009
Evaluating Patient’s Perception of Care and Program Effectiveness	Current	May 13, 2009
GWTG-Stroke and QI Criteria	Current	May 13, 2009
IA t-PA	Current	May 13, 2009
IV Thrombolytic Therapy	Current	May 13, 2009
Measuring Stroke Care and Performance	Current	May 13, 2009
Stroke Performance Measure Compliance	Current	May 13, 2009
Submitting Stroke Performance Measure Data	Current	May 13, 2009
Time Last Known Well and Time of Symptom Onset	Current	May 13, 2009