Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Short Synacthen Test (SST) is widely used to assess hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in patients on corticosteroids. This requires significant material and human resources especially as patients often require multiple tests. We performed a retrospective cohort study, followed by the implementation of QIP methodology to reduce the number of SST in this cohort of patients.Methodology: We reviewed 167 patients who had a SST and derived ...