2014 ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiovascular Endpoint Events in Clinical Trials: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Cardiovascular Endpoints Data Standards).

Preamble 303 Foreword 304 1. Introduction 304 2. Methodology 305 3. Data Elements and Definitions 306 4. Informatics of Controlled Vocabularies 310 References 310 Appendix 1. Author Relationships With Industry and Other Entities (Relevant)—2014 ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiovascular Endpoint Events in Clinical Trials 313 Appendix 2. Reviewer Relationships With Industry and Other Entities—2014 ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiovascular Endpoint Events in Clinical Trials 314 Appendix 3. Death Attribution 315 Appendix 4. Myocardial Infarction 318 Appendix 5. Hospitalization for Unstable Angina 324 Appendix 6. Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke 327 Appendix 7. Heart Failure Event 329 Appendix 8. Heart Failure Event: Additional Details 334 Appendix 9. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention 336 Appendix 10. Cardiovascular Anatomy 350 Appendix 11. Peripheral Vascular Intervention 356 The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) support their members’ goal to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular disease through professional education, research, and development of guidelines and standards and by fostering policies that support optimal patient outcomes. The ACC and AHA recognize the importance of the use of clinical data standards for patient management, assessment of outcomes, and conduct of research, and the importance of …