National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteonecrosis of the hip.

National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteonecrosis of the hip.

American College of Radiology

• ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteonecrosis of the hip. This updates a previously published guideline summary.

Guideline Title

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteonecrosis of the hip.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Murphey MD, Roberts CC, Bencardino JT, Appel M, Arnold E, Chang EY, Dempsey ME, Fox MG, Fries IB, Greenspan BS, Hochman MG, Jacobson JA, Mintz DN, Newman JS, Rosenberg ZS, Rubin DA, Weissman BN, Small KM, Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® osteonecrosis of the hip. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2015. 12 p. [67 references]

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Seeger LL, Daffner RH, Weissman BN, Arnold E, Bancroft L, Bennett DL, Blebea JS, Fries IB, Jacobson JA, Morrison WB, Payne WK III, Resnik CS, Roberts CC, Schweitzer ME, Taljanovic M, Wise JN, Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis) of the hip. [online publication]. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2009. 5 p. [22 references]

This guideline meets NGC's 2013 (revised) inclusion criteria.