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Thursday Aug 09, 2018
Thursday Aug 09, 2018
November 2008 Author in the Room® Teleconference
Author: Rita Redberg, MD, MSc
Summary Points:
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A majority (55.5 percent) of Medicare patients with stable coronary artery disease who underwent an elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) did not have a recommended stress test performed to document ischemia.
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The rate of stress testing before elective PCI shows significant geographic variation, from a low of 22 percent in Fresno, California, to a high of 71 percent in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Patient characteristics (female sex, age of 85 years or older, and having co-existing illnesses) and physician characteristics (physicians who performed a higher volume of PCI procedures) were associated with lower rates of stress testing.
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