Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Short Synacthen tests (SST) are expensive, inconvenient, time consuming and subject to Synacthen availability. Any strategy reducing the need for SSTs will improve its cost effectiveness and also improve patient satisfaction. In this regard indications for SST and assay specific pre-test cortisol levels (not all SSTs are done at 0900 h) may have clinical utility.Methods: We retrospectively examined the indications for, time and place of tes...