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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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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