Improvement in thyroid ultrasound report quality with radiologists' adherence to 2015 ATA or 2017 TIRADS: a population study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There has been slow adoption of thyroid ultrasound guidelines with adherence rates as low as 30% and no population-based studies investigating adherence to guideline-based malignancy risk assessment. We therefore evaluated the impact of adherence to the 2015 ATA guidelines or 2017 ACR-TIRADS guidelines on the quality of thyroid ultrasound reports in our healthcare region.

Methods

We reviewed 899 thyroid ultrasound reports of patients who received fine-needle aspiration biopsy and were diagnosed with Bethesda III or IV nodules or thyroid cancer. Ultrasounds were reported by radiology group 1, group 2, or other groups, and were divided into pre-2018 (before guideline adherence) or 2018 onwards. Reports were given a utility score (0-6) based on how many relevant nodu

SUBMITTER: Hu XY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9254273 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature