Such further consideration can be performed, for example, by an epidemiology-based differential diagnostic procedure, where potential candidate conditions are listed that may explain the finding, followed by calculations of how probable they are to have occurred in the first place, in turn followed by a comparison with the probability that the result would have occurred by random variability.
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However, the hypercalcemia " has occurred " with a probability of 100 %, resulting adjusted probabilities of at least 4.6 % that primary hyperparathyroidism has caused the hypercalcemia, at least 0.7 % for cancer, at least 1.9 % for other conditions and up to 92.8 % for that there is no disease and the hypercalcemia is caused by random variability.
