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Guidelines, Criteria & Consensus Documents
GUIDELINES, CRITERIA & CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS
Guidelines Appropriate Use Criteria Expert Consensus Documents Scientific and Training Statements
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Guidelines

Guidelines are reserved for areas in which there is a sufficient level of clinical evidence that can be graded and used to generate clear recommendations.

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2020 Guideline for Training Cardiology and Radiology Trainees as Independent Practitioners (Level II) and Advanced Practitioners (Level III) in Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Sponsored by SCCT
Published 2020

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Recommendations on the Use of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in Young Adult Competitive Athletes

Sponsored by SCCT/ASE/SCMR
Published 2020

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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Sponsored by ACC/AHA
Published 2019

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Management of blood cholesterol

Sponsored by AHA/ACC/AACVPR/ABC /ACPM/ADA/AGS/ApHa/ASPC /NLA/PCNA
Published 2018

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Appropriate Use Criteria

Specification of when it is appropriate to perform a medical procedure or service. An appropriate procedure is one of which the expected health benefits exceed the expected health risk by a wide margin.

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Coronary revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes

Sponsored by ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/STS 
Published 2016

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Utilization of cardiovascular imaging in heart failure

Sponsored by ACCF/ACR/ASE/ASNC/SCCT/SCMR
Published 2013

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Diagnostic catherization

Sponsored by ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/
HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS

Published 2012

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Coronary revascularization focused update

Sponsored by ACCF/SCAI/STS/AATS/AHA/ASNC/
HFSA/SCCT

Published 2012

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Expert Consensus Documents

Evidence-based, incorporating a critical review of the literature, however used in instances with less robust published evidence and therefore supplemented by expert consensus.

 

Cardiac computed tomography for prosthetic heart valve assessment

Co-authored by SCCT, ACC, ESCR, NASCI, RSNA, SCAI, STS
Published 2025

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Standardized Medical Terminology for Cardiac CT 2023 Update

Sponsored by SCCT, AAPM, ACR, NASCI, RSNA, ASCI, EACVI, ESCR
Published 2023

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Coronary computed tomographic angiography

Sponsored by AAPM, ACR, NASCI, RSNA, ASCI, EACVI, ESCR
Published 2023

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Evaluating acute chest pain in the emergency department

Sponsored by SCCT, ACR, NASCI
Published 2022

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Scientific and Training Statements

2023 ACC/AHA/SCAI Advanced Training Statement on Interventional Cardiology

A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee on Coronary, Peripheral Vascular, and Structural Heart Interventions

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Assessment of coronary artery disease by cardiac computed tomography

A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Committee on Cardiovascular Imaging and Intervention, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, and Committee on Cardiac Imaging, Council on Clinical Cardiology

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Coronary CT angiography: Historical and current perspectives

A white paper of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

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Training cardiology and radiology trainees as Independent Practitioners (Level II) and Advanced Practitioners (Level III) in cardiovascular computed tomography

A guideline of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

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Training cardiology and radiology trainees as Independent Practitioners (Level II) and Advanced Practitioners (Level III) in cardiovascular computed tomography

A guideline of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

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Training in advanced cardiovascular imaging

Task Force 12: A statement endorsed by American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention, and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

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CAD-RADSTM 2.0: Coronary artery disease - reporting and data system

CAD-RADS is a standardized reporting system for coronary CTA results on a per-patient basis. It is intended to improve communication of results to referring physicians in a consistent fashion, including recommendations for further management. The achieved standardization of reporting will benefit education, research, peer review and quality assurance and may ultimately result in improved quality of care.

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The Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography is a unique peer-review journal that integrates the entire international cardiovascular CT community including cardiologist and radiologists, from basic to clinical academic researchers, to private practitioners, engineers, allied professionals, industry, and trainees, all of whom are vital and interdependent members of our cardiovascular imaging community across the world. The goal of the journal is to advance the field of cardiovascular CT as the leading cardiovascular CT journal, attracting seminal work in the field with rapid and timely dissemination in electronic and print media.

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