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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) develops a number of policy documents to provide members with guidance on clinical topics. Although clinical practice guidelines remain the primary mechanism for offering evidence-based recommendations, such guidelines may contain gaps in how to make clinical decisions, particularly when equipoise is present in a topic. Expert Consensus Documents are intended to provide guidance for clinicians in areas in which evidence may be limited or new and evolving, or in which data are insufficient to fully inform clinical decision making. In an effort to increase the impact of ACC policy on patient care, an ACC Presidential Task Force was formed in 2014 to examine the ACC’s clinical documents. The main recommendation of the Task Force was a new focus on concise decision pathways and/or key points of care, instead of the traditional longer documents. The Task Force …