When do you consider changing a patient's levothyroxine dose during hospitalization due to abnormal TFTs, but without clinical evidence of thyrotoxicosis or hypothyroidism?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Thank you for your question. I think this is something we commonly get in the hospital, and we often overreact to it. This was a "Things We Do For No Reason" some time back, and I think they outline the issues well.When people are acutely ill, TSH testing is unreliable. The times when TSH testing is...