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SUBMITTER: Schneider C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927436 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schneider Claudio C Feller Martin M Bauer Douglas C DC Collet Tinh-Hai TH da Costa Bruno R BR Auer Reto R Peeters Robin P RP Brown Suzanne J SJ Bremner Alexandra P AP O'Leary Peter C PC Feddema Peter P Leedman Peter J PJ Aujesky Drahomir D Walsh John P JP Rodondi Nicolas N
PloS one 20180430 4
<h4>Objective</h4>Guidelines for thyroid function evaluation recommend testing TSH first, then assessing fT4 only if TSH is out of the reference range (two-step), but many clinicians initially request both TSH and fT4 (one-step). Given limitations of previous studies, we aimed to compare the two-step with the one-step approach in an unselected community-dwelling study population, and develop a prediction score based on clinical parameters that could identify at-risk patients for thyroid dysfunct ...[more]