For the last 40 years, the ACC has partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) to jointly develop and produce clinical practice guidelines for the cardiovascular community. Starting with the ...

Forty years after the first clinical practice guideline on cardiac pacemakers, the ACC and the American Heart Association (AHA) continue to evolve the guideline process – and the documents themselves ...

The American Heart Association has released ... When the guidelines and standard of care change, what must one do to satisfy their clinical and legal obligations when treating patients?

Pediatric otolaryngologist David Tunkel provides an overview of a clinical practice guideline that he and colleagues developed for the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery on ...

Cardiovascular diseases account for approximately 30% of deaths worldwide and remain a leading cause of morbidity and ...

The implementation of more sensitive troponin assays in clinical practice has increased our awareness of the spectrum of both acute and chronic myocardial injury. While the universal definition ...

Heidenreich PA, Bozkurt B, Aguilar D, et al. 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee ...

Good Clinical Practice (GCP), the bedrock of ethical ... released the ICH E6(R3) draft guideline for public consultation in May 2023 in collaboration with global health authorities, including ...

Although SGLT2i were not included as standard GDMT during the trial period (ie, 2017–2020), we included SGLT2i in this analysis, given the current recommendations in the HF clinical practice ...

Although the future holds tremendous promise, few realize that AI has already become an essential partner to physicians.

The AHA/CDC statement makes the following recommendations for the use of hs-CRP in clinical practice: In terms of the clinical chemistry of the assay, hs-CRP is the marker of choice. Results of ...

Level one evidence and the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that comprise it are widely considered to be the best basis for determining medical practice. This is particularly true when the RCTs ...