title: "Inappropriate" cardiac catheterizations may be common. Many physicians skip noninvasive stress tests and go straight to cardiac catheterizations, a new study finds.
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures