Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute trauma to the ankle (revised 2020)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic foot pain (revised 2020)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute trauma to the foot (revised 2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute trauma to the knee (revised 2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute hand and wrist trauma (revised 2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute hip pain – Suspected fracture (revised 2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic knee pain (revised 2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria shoulder pain – Atraumatic (2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic ankle pain (revised 2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic wrist pain (revised 2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria shoulder pain – Traumatic (revised 2017)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), American College of Radiology (ACR), Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), and Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU): Practice parameter for the performance of a musculoskeletal ultrasound examination (2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic back pain – Suspected sacroiliitis/spondyloarthropathy (2016)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic extremity joint pain – Suspected inflammatory arthritis (2016)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic hip pain (revised 2016)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic elbow pain (1998, reviewed 2015)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria follow-up of malignant or aggressive musculoskeletal tumors (1998, reviewed 2015)

●American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM): Position statement on interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound in sports medicine (2015)

Europe

●European Society of MusculoSkeletal Radiology (ESSR): Consensus on clinical indications for musculoskeletal ultrasound, update (2018)

●European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR): Recommendations for the use of imaging in the clinical management of peripheral joint osteoarthritis (2017)

●EULAR: Standardised procedures for ultrasound imaging in rheumatology (2017)

●EULAR: Recommendations for the use of imaging in the diagnosis and management of spondyloarthritis in clinical practice (2015)

●EULAR: Recommendations for the use of imaging of the joints in the clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis (2013)

●European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB): Guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of ultrasound elastography – Part 2: Clinical applications (2013)

●ESSR: Musculoskeletal ultrasound technical guidelines (2010)