ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Recurrent Symptoms–Lower-Extremity Angioplasty American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Recurrent Symptoms Following Lower-Extremity Angioplasty Variant 1: Claudication. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* Segmental Doppler pressures and pulse volume recordings 9 Usual first tests. O MRA lower extremity without and with ...

Purpose To present the most updated American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria formed by an expert panel on the appropriate delivery of external beam radiation to manage stage T1 and T2 prostate cancer (in the definitive setting and post-prostatectomy) and to provide clinical variants with expert recommendations based on accompanying Appropriateness Criteria for target volumes...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS To summarize the published literature on assessment of appropriateness of colonoscopy for investigation of chronic diarrhea, management of patients with known inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and for colorectal cancer (CRC) surveillance in such patients, and to report report appropriateness criteria developed by an expert panel, the 2008 European Panel on the Appropri...

OBJECTIVES To systematically describe appropriateness criteria (AC) developed in the United States for surgical procedures and to summarize how these criteria have been applied to identify overuse and underuse of procedures in US populations. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE literature search performed in February 2010 and May 2011. STUDY SELECTION Studies were included if they addressed the appropriat...