They also made national estimates of the cost of unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging and the health burden of this testing, in terms of cancer risk due to radiation exposure. (sciencedaily.com)
The investigators concluded that the national growth in cardiac stress testing can be attributed largely to population and provider characteristics — but the use of imaging can not. (sciencedaily.com)
So what can be done to reduce unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging? (sciencedaily.com)