Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents Endorsed by the American Heart Association and the

American College of Cardiology/Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Clinical Expert Consensus Document on Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Standards A Report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents Endorsed by the American Heart Association and the Diagnostic and Interventional Catheterization Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the AHA

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