Interventions. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the
American College of Cardiology (www. cardiosource. org), the American Heart Association …

The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines was formed to gather information and
make recommendations about appropriate use of technology for the diagnosis and …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

ContextAccurate estimation of risk for untoward outcomes after patients have been
hospitalized for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) may help clinicians guide the type and …

Aims There have been no large observational studies attempting to identify predictors of
major bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), particularly from a …

To make an evidence-based evaluation of the relationship between kidney failure and
cardiovascular risk, we reviewed the literature obtained from a PubMed search using pre …

Objectives: We sought to create contemporary models for predicting mortality risk following
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Background: There is a need to identify PCI risk …

Background: While clinical prediction models (CPMs) are used increasingly commonly to
guide patient care, the performance and clinical utility of these CPMs in new patient cohorts …

This study was undertaken to determine the incidence, risk factors, and in-hospital outcome
of nephropathy requiring dialysis (NRD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and …

Background When subgroup analyses of a positive clinical trial are unrevealing, such
findings are commonly used to argue that the treatment's benefits apply to the entire study …