[The organization of diagnostic exercise tests in a provincial general hospital]
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Minerva Medica
|January 14, 1979
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The Italian Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (ANMCO) recommended diagnostic effort tests. This study examines the costs and advises using these tests only when essential for cardiology diagnosis after initial patient evaluation.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Medical Diagnostics
Abstract:
The approach to the diagnostic effort test recently recommended by the A.N.M.C.O. is discussed. The cost of equipment and staff required are examined. Precise data regarding the cost of such a unit in the cardiology department are given and stress is laid on the advisability of confining its use to cases in which clinico-historical investigation and preliminary clinical evaluation point to it as indispensable for cardiology diagnosis.