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Table. 3.

Diagnostic performance of 24-hr UFC measured by the six methods

24-hr UFC AUC 95% CI for AUC Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Cut-off (nmol/24 hrs)
LC-MS/MS 0.972* 0.948–0.987 93.2 95.4 154.8
Abbott-D 0.975 0.952–0.989 93.2 95.9 225.2
Beckman-D 0.877 0.837–0.911 76.1 94.6 1,321.5
Siemens-D 0.948§ 0.918–0.969 81.8 97.1 945.2
Beckman-E 0.955 0.927–0.975 92.0 93.0 244.0
Siemens-E 0.966 0.940–0.983 90.9 95.9 326.9

*P=0.0006 vs. Beckman-D; P=0.0027 vs. Siemens-D.

P=0.0004 vs. Beckman-D; P=0.0020 vs. Siemens-D.

P=0.0094 vs. Beckman-E; P=0.0014 vs. Siemens-E; P=0.0109 vs. Siemens-D.

§P=0.0073 vs. Siemens-E.

Abbreviations: UFC, urinary free cortisol; AUC, area under the ROC curve; CI, confidence interval; D, direct assay; E, extraction assay.

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