A clinical approach to exercise tolerance testing in coronary artery disease.
Data from exercise tolerance testing should be incorporated into clinical decision making. A strategy for stratification of individual patients into high, indeterminate, and low-risk categories using Bruce protocol exercise testing is outlined. This approach will help to ensure further evaluation of high-risk individuals without excessive testing of patients having excellent long-term prognoses.
D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D003657:Decision Making; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012306:Risk