What are the ACC/AHA criteria for issuing a focused update?
The ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines has set certain criteria for issuing a focused update. These criteria include: 1) recently published data must be available; 2) the data must be relevant to the guideline; 3) the data must be of sufficient quality to warrant a change in the guideline; 4) the data must be sufficient to support a change in the guideline; 5) the data must be sufficiently different from the existing evidence base to warrant a change in the guideline; and 6) the change must be justified by the available evidence.