National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine chest radiography.

National Guideline Clearinghouse | ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine chest radiography.

Guideline Summaries

American College of Radiology

• ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine chest radiography. This updates a previously published guideline summary.

Guideline Title

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine chest radiography.

Bibliographic Source(s)

McComb BL, Chung JH, Crabtree TD, Heitkamp DE, Iannettoni MD, Jokerst C, Saleh AG, Shah RD, Steiner RM, Mohammed TL, Ravenel JG, Expert Panel on Thoracic Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine chest radiography. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2015. 8 p. [47 references]

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Mohammed TL, Kirsch J, Amorosa JK, Brown K, Chung JH, Dyer DS, Ginsburg ME, Heitkamp DE, Kanne JP, Kazerooni EA, Ketai LH, Ravenel JG, Saleh AG, Shah RD, Expert Panel on Thoracic Imaging. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® routine admission and preoperative chest radiography. [online publication]. Reston (VA): American College of Radiology (ACR); 2011. 6 p. [41 references]

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