Appropriateness Criteria

ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC 2009 Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization: A Report by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Endorsed by the American Society of Echocardiography, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Please see accompanying editorial by Drs. W. Douglas Weaver, Timothy Gardner, and Joseph Babb immediately following this document.

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2008.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Patel MR, Dehmer GJ, Hirshfeld JW, Smith PK, Spertus JA. ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC 2009 appropriateness criteria for coronary revascularization. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009;53:530–53.

This article has been copublished in the February 10, 2009, issue of Circulation and the February 15, 2009, issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

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American College of Cardiology Foundation Representative;

Society of Thoracic Surgeons Representative