Performing the exercise test.
With proper training, exercise testing is a useful diagnostic procedure for the primary care physician in the outpatient as well as the inpatient setting. By careful pretest evaluation, one is able to study patients safely and to obtain both diagnostic and prognostic information concerning the risk for cardiovascular disease.
White
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Family Medicine Associates, Aurora, Missouri.
Evans
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CH
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