“It's important to perform comprehensive lab tests periodically (at least once a year) for most adults, and testing done by ...

Last month, this column addressed the need for (and philosophy behind) sample testing certain systems when 100% functional performance testing (FPT) is impractical from a time and/or budget ...

Conclusions Among high-risk patients who had undergone PCI, a follow-up strategy of routine functional testing, as compared with standard care alone, did not improve clinical outcomes at 2 years.

After PCI, there is no value to routine functional testing above and beyond standard care in high-risk patients, new data suggest. Doing such follow-up at 1 year had no impact on 2-year clinical ...