New AUC on Rotator Cuff Builds on Clinical Practice Guideline.

At its September meeting, the AAOS Board of Directors approved the release of a new set of Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) on Rotator Cuff Pathology (RCP). Given the many variables in how RCP presents, the AUC yields a possible 180 different scenarios with associated treatment recommendations (a table of all of them is found in the supporting document for the AUC, available at orthoguidelines.org). [Extracted from the article]