Table 1.
Cytologic diagnosis rates according to TBSRTC
| Institution | Category |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | VI | |
| 1 | 8.6 | 61.7 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 14.7 |
| 2 | 16.2 | 51.9 | 18.9 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 9.1 |
| 3 | 8.0 | 61.0 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 23.6 |
| 4 | 15.4 | 51.5 | 16.5 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 11.4 |
| 5 | 8.1 | 60.0 | 11.8 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 16.2 |
| 6 | 11.2 | 56.9 | 7.6 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 19.0 |
| 7 | 20.1 | 34.1 | 21.9 | 0.7 | 5.7 | 17.4 |
| 8 | 20.3 | 44.5 | 18.1 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 12.2 |
| 9 | 32.6 | 61.5 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 0.6 |
| 10 | 2.9 | 86.5 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 7.3 |
| 11 | 0.0 | 74.9 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 12.0 |
| 12 | 5.5 | 50.0 | 6.6 | 22.3 | 6.8 | 8.9 |
| Average (%) | 12.4 | 57.9 | 10.4 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 12.7 |
| Range (%) | 0–32.6 | 34.1–86.5 | 2.3–21.9 | 0–22.3 | 0.6–6.8 | 0.6–23.6 |
| Average (%) [12] | 12.9 | 59.3 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 2.7 | 5.4 |
| Range (%) [12] | 1.8–23.6 | 39.0–73.8 | 3.0–27.2 | 1.2–25.3 | 1.4–6.3 | 2.0–16.2 |
| p-valuea | .790 | .723 | .992 | .053 | .385 | .008 |
TBSRTC, the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology.
a
Statistical analysis of student’s t test for categorical diagnosis rate between this survey data and reference data were constructed from Excel Software. Differences for which p < .05 were considered significant.