Table 3.

Diagnostic efficacy and the ROC curves of ATA categories.

	Sensitivity [95% CIs]	Specificity [95% CIs]	DOR [95% CIs]	AUC
High	0.6977 [0.5992; 0.7809]; I2 = 98.8%	0.8715 [0.8082; 0.9161]; I2 = 99.4%	15.7398 [11.5605; 21.4299]; I2 = 95.2%	0.859
Intermediate	0.8800 [0.8239; 0.9199]; I2 = 97.9%	0.6155 [0.5471; 0.6796]; I2 = 99.2%	11.5148 [8.2698; 16.0332]; I2 = 95.0%	0.799
Low	0.9768 [0.9498; 0.9895]; I2 = 98.1%	0.2261 [0.1614; 0.3073]; I2 = 99.5%	6.7781 [4.1264; 11.1339]; I2 = 94.2%	0.694

ROC: receiver operating characteristic; CI: confidence interval; AUC: area under the curve; ATA: American Thyroid Association.