Why the study?
Does noninvasive stress testing accurately predict cardiac events and the need for bypass surgery in patients with coronary disease?
Does noninvasive stress testing accurately predict cardiac events and the need for bypass surgery in patients with coronary disease?
The author argues that noninvasive stress testing has poor positive predictive value and remains an unproven hypothesis for selecting patients for invasive study.
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Monty Bodenheimer (1992) studied this question.
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