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Key patient factors associated with preoperative stress testing included predicted surgical risk, patient functional status, a previous diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease, tobacco use and body mass index. Patients living in either the most-deprived or least-deprived census block groups were more likely to be tested. Patients were tested more frequently before aortic, peripheral vascular or urologic interventions than before other surgical subcategories. Even after fully adjusting for patient and surgical factors, provider effects remained important: marginal testing rates differed by a factor-of-three in relative terms and around 2.5% in absolute terms between the 5th and 95th percentile physicians. Stress testing frequency decreased over the time period; controlling for patient and physician predictors, a visit in 2008 would have resulted in stress testing approximately 3.5% of the time, while a visit in 2018 would have resulted in stress testing approximately 1.3% of the time.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this large cohort of patients seen for preoperative risk assessment at a single health system, decisions to refer patients for preoperative stress testing are influenced by various factors other than estimated perioperative risk and functional status, the key considerations in current guidelines. 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