Trends in Thyroid Surgery and Guideline-Concordant Care in the United States, 2007-2018.

ABSTRACT: Background: The American Thyroid Association (ATA) published the 2015 Management Guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer, recommending a shift to less aggressive diagnostic, surgical, and postoperative treatment strategies. At the same time and perhaps related to the new guidelines, there has been a shift to outpatient thyroid surgery. The aim of the current study was to assess physician adherence to these recommendations by identifying and quantifying temporal trends in the rates and indications for thyroid procedures in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Methods: Using the IBM^® MarketScan^® Commercial database, we identified employer-insured patients in the United States who underwent outpatient a

SUBMITTER: Toumi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8215427 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature