Hospital Administrative Data Should Not be Used to Study Thyroid Surgery Outcomes

Affiliations

¹ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pôle Information Médicale Evaluation Recherche, Lyon, France, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Health Services and Performance Research Laboratory, Lyon, France, Center for Surgery and Public Health Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Hospices Civils de Lyon, Center Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Service de Chirurgie Générale et Endocrinienne, Pierre Bénite, France, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Health Services and Performance Research Laboratory, Lyon, France.

Comment

Antoine Duclos et al. Ann Surg. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;267(4):e78.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002157.

¹ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pôle Information Médicale Evaluation Recherche, Lyon, France, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Health Services and Performance Research Laboratory, Lyon, France, Center for Surgery and Public Health Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Hospices Civils de Lyon, Center Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Service de Chirurgie Générale et Endocrinienne, Pierre Bénite, France, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Health Services and Performance Research Laboratory, Lyon, France.

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Reply to: "Surgeon Volume Threshold for Total Thyroidectomy".
Adam MA, Thomas S, Youngwirth L, Hyslop T, Reed SD, Scheri RP, Roman SA, Sosa JA. Adam MA, et al. Ann Surg. 2018 Apr;267(4):e78-e79. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002161. Ann Surg. 2018. PMID: 29517563 No abstract available.

Is There a Minimum Number of Thyroidectomies a Surgeon Should Perform to Optimize Patient Outcomes?
Adam MA, Thomas S, Youngwirth L, Hyslop T, Reed SD, Scheri RP, Roman SA, Sosa JA. Adam MA, et al. Ann Surg. 2017 Feb;265(2):402-407. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001688. Ann Surg. 2017. PMID: 28059969