title: Maximizing the exercise stress test. Critical factors that enhances its validity.
abstract: The maximal exercise stress test continues to be an important diagnostic and prognostic tool in the primary care office setting. But are you getting the most accurate information possible? Drs Driggers and Marchant discuss several factors that are crucial to the test's validity--and thus to its usefulness in your clinical practice.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Driggers
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marchant
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009819:Office Visits; D018579:Patient Selection; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity