ACCF/AHA Practice Guideline

*Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry and other entities may apply; see Appendix 1 for recusal information.†ACCF/AHA representative.‡ACCF/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines liaison.§American College of Physicians representative.‖American College of Chest Physicians representative.¶International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation representative.#ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures liaison.**American Academy of Family Physicians representative.††Heart Rhythm Society representative.‡‡Former Task Force member during this writing effort.Full-text guideline available at: http://circ.ahajournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1161/CIR.0b013e31829e8776.This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in May 2013.

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