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Regarding an echocardiogram, is it METS or METs? - mt12

Posted: Apr 08, 2010

She exercised for nine minutes on a Bruce protocol, which was the equivalent of 10 METS of activity. Should it be METS or METs?

TIA.

METS - crh

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My references have always told me to use METS which is the acronym metabolic equivalents. I also found it online this way. When I first started typing the echos many moons ago, I spelled it mets and QA came back and told me METS. Hope that helps.

METs - anon

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I believe it stands for "minutes of exercise tolerance". I have always typed it METs, and have never been told otherwise. You may want to ask your quality coach and see what she says.

It is, indeed, METs (discussed here quite recently) - NM

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METs - YankeeFan

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METs, it is the plural of MET - nm

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