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When papillary thyroid cancer patients with characteristics associated with low risk of death were selected, there was tremendous variation in hospital-level radioactive iodine use. The horizontal line is the population average (37.4%) and the dashed lines represent the 95% confidence interval for the average. The vertical lines represent the 95% confidence intervals for the hospital-specific estimated probabilities of radioactive iodine use.
