. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 12.

Published in final edited form as: Horm Metab Res. 2010 Aug 27;42(12):874–881. doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1263128

Table 1.

Probability of a patient with Cushing’s syndrome having at least one negative test and probability of patient without Cushing’s syndrome having at least one positive test^a

Test	Probability of patients with Cushing’s syndrome having at least one negative test (95 % confidence interval)	Probability having one positive test in a patient without Cushing’s syndrome (95 % confidence interval)
Salivary	59/64=0.92	9/53=0.17
cortisol	(0.83, 0.97)	(0.08, 0.30)
UFC	58/66=0.88	12/51=0.24
	(0.78, 0.95)	(0.13, 0.37)
17OHS	54/63=0.86	14/50=0.28
	(0.75, 0.93)	(0.16, 0.42)
Nighttime	31/57=0.54	11/45=0.24
cortisol	(0.41, 0.68)	(0.14, 0.39)

A 95 % confidence interval is also given