American College of Cardiology

GIBBONS ET AL., MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC STABLE ANGINA UPDATE
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ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for the Management of Patients With Chronic Stable Angina

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Chronic Stable Angina)

Committee Members
Jonathan Abrams, MD, FACC, FAHA; Kanu Chatterjee, MB, FACC; Jennifer Daley, MD, FACP; Prakash C. Deedwania, MD, FACC, FAHA; John S. Douglas, MD, FACC; T. Bruce Ferguson, Jr., MD; Stephan D. Fihn, MD, MPH, FACP; Theodore D. Fraker, Jr., MD, FACC; Julius M. Gardin, MD, FACC, FAHA; Robert A. O’Rourke, MD, FACC, FAHA; Richard C. Pasternak, MD, FACC, FAHA; Sankey V. Williams, MD, MACP

Task Force Members
Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair; Elliott M. Antman, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice Chair; Joseph S. Alpert, MD, FACC, FAHA; David P. Faxon, MD, FACC, FAHA; Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA; Gabriel Gregoratos, MD, FACC, FAHA; Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA; Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA; Sidney C. Smith, Jr., MD, FACC, FAHA

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2002, the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in October 2002, and the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine in June 2002. When citing this document, please use the following citation format: Gibbons RJ, Abrams J, Chatterjee K, Daley J, Deedwania PC, Douglas JS, Ferguson TB Jr, Fihn SD, Fraker TD Jr., Gardin JM, O'Rourke RA, Pasternak RC, Williams SV. ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with chronic stable angina: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina). 2002. Available at www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/stable/stable.pdf.

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