> >Isn't it highly unthical to do excercise ecgs on otherwise fit
> >and symptom free young(ish) men.
>
> Why should it be unethical to do a non-invasive investigation on an
> informed, consenting adult?
> --
> John D Dalton
generally because the -being informed- bit is debatable; will the
'average' so-called informed punter appreciate the risks of and
associated with a false positive finding? true of lots of screening
tests; remember examples of patients coming back with the reams of
private medical report with the slightly elevated serum rhubarb with the
request to kindly follow it up? if you do twenty tests chances are one
of them is going to fall outside the 95% range of normal; i think that
if the pre-test probability is low the positive predictive value of the
test plummets and the test becomes a liability
owen dempsey
GP
West Yorks
UK
'trained to move at a slow and loping pace'
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