Quality Control and Test Criteria in Ergometry

摘要: Quality control is an established requirement in medicine. It strongly related to standardization on the one hand and test criteria other. assurance a basic procedure clinical chemistry, but it has been neglected ergometry. Recent results ergometer calibration tests yielded deviations between measured indicated power output of about 50% [2,11]. Obviously, there need for quality cardiovascular testing, especially stress testing. This can be underlined by recommendations proposed American Heart Association (AHA) [5] recent efforts German Society Cardiovascular Research establish criteria. Further, as shown Philbrick et al. [15], exercise testing requires methodological improvements patient selection, data collection analysis. The enthusiasm Bayes’ theorem again highlights improved approach interpretation another aspect [3,14,16, 20].