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Legal Aspects of Graded Exercise Testing

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Exercise Stress Testing for Primary Care and Sports Medicine

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Graded exercise testing (ET) is performed by family physicians, internists and cardiologists. Currently, only about 13% of family physicians and 29% of internists perform this procedure in the cardiac evaluation of patients [1, 2]. A survey of the graduates of one family medicine residency program found a decrease in the percent of graduates performing exercise testing from 14.9% in the graduation years of 1975–1983 to 5.3% in the graduation years of 1994–2003 [3]. While the American Board of Internal Medicine requires its members to do this procedure, the number of internists performing exercise testing continues to decline.

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  2. Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, & Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; The Exercise Standards and Malpractice Reporter, Laboratory for Health & Exercise Science, OH, USA, Canton

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  3. Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Truman Medical Center Lakewood, Kansas City, MO, USA

    Russell D. White

  4. Department of Cardiology, Stanford/Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Victor F. Froelicher

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    Corey H. Evans MD, MPH

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Herbert, D.L., Herbert, W.G., White, R.D., Froelicher, V.F. (2009). Legal Aspects of Graded Exercise Testing. In: Evans, C.H., White, R.D. (eds) Exercise Stress Testing for Primary Care and Sports Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76597-6_14

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