Use of a Computer‐based Postal Questionnaire for the Detection of Hypothyroidism Following Radioiodine Therapy for Thyrotoxicosis

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Use of a computer‐based postal questionnaire for the detection of hypothyroidism following radioiodine therapy for thyrotoxicosis. L C. Harrison, D. Buckley and F. I. R. Martin, Aust. N.Z. J. Med, 1977, 7, pp. 27–32. A computer‐processed postal questionnaire was devised to detect hypothyroidism in patients treated previously for thyrotoxicosis with radioiodine. In a study of 232 patients treated with 131 J. at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between four and ten years previously, the sum of symptomatic answers in the questionnaire was a sensitive discriminator of hypothyroidism, and allowed 80% of euthyroid patients to be excluded from further assessment. Questions concerned with general well‐b..