Table 3.
Norfolk database: thyroid function tests conducted on all people registered between June 2005 and June 2006 (n = 946) and between June 2011 and June 2012 (n = 1385).
| Number of tests in past year | Thyroid function tests n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4 |
TSH |
|||
| 2005/6 | 2011/12 | 2005/6 | 2011/12 | |
| 0 | 800 (84.6%) | 435 (31.4%) | 536 (56.7%) | 16 (1.2%) |
| 1* | 111 (11.7%) | 199 (14.4%) | 262 (27.7%) | 176 (12.7%) |
| 2$ | 23 (2.4%) | 412 (29.8%) | 92 (9.7%) | 583 (42.1%) |
| 3$ | 8 (0.8%) | 219 (15.8%) | 25 (2.6%) | 409 (29.5%) |
| 4$ | 4 (0.4%) | 91 (6.6%) | 24 (2.5%) | 149 (10.8%) |
| 5 or more$ | 0 (0%) | 28 (2.0%) | 7 (0.7%) | 51 (3.7%) |
*
Meets Quality and Outcomes Framework targets.
$
Meets National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence standards.
TSH, thyroid stimulating hormone; T4, thyroxine.