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5 Things Physicians and Patients Should Question--ACC

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between three and five procedures that should not be performed or should be performed more rarely and only in specific circumstances. ACC staff took the councils� recommendations and compared them to the ACC�s existing appropriate use criteria and guidelines, choosing items for the five things list that had the tightest inappropriate score in the AUCs and were Class III recommendations in the guidelines.