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1Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. dbrewer2@utk.edu
Primary Care
|August 5, 2000
Abstract:
The results of cardiac tests must always be interpreted through the lens of pretest probabilities created by the history and the physical examination. Tests should be chosen with a clear diagnostic and prognostic purpose in mind. A clear understanding of the relationship between the history and physical examination and more technologic diagnostic testing improves the primary care physician's ability to evaluate potential cardiac disease in an efficient and cost-effective manner.