Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)

More than 300,000 Medicare patients are hospitalized for heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) each year. Many do not receive important therapies that are known to be beneficial. The National Acute Myocardial Infarction Project focuses on increasing the use of appropriate care processes to improve patient outcomes. The goal is to lower the one-year mortality rate for Medicare beneficiaries following hospital admission for heart attack.

AMI Indicator Specifications:
Additional information on the AMI quality measures, including exclusion critera, is available on MedQIC. Click here to view the 22 core quality measures related to treatment of AMI, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical patients.

Additional tools, interventions and resources:

The American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) project is a hospital-based quality improvement program designed to close the treatment gap in cardiovascular disease.   The program provides physicians and healthcare providers with materials, information, and tools based on American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) Secondary Prevention guidelines on cardiovascular disease. New Mexico hospitals may find participating in GWTG-CAD can augment the success of ongoing quality improvement efforts related to cardiovascular disease. 

For more information about acute myocardial infarction, visit:

• National AMI Project information
• American Heart Association
• American College of Cardiology
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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