Improving quality indicators for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: impact of the disease-specific care certification

Registries have shown that there still exists a large gap between what is recommended by evidence-based guidelines and what is actually offered to the patient in clinical practice. Monitoring quality indicators allows the identification of these gaps and, in consequence, enables specific interventions for improvement. In January 2012 began, in a Brazilian private hospital, the implementation of the Clinical Care Program (CCP) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The present study aims to evaluate the impact of the CCP in quality indicators for AMI including in-hospital mortality.