G Scerrino, G Melfa, C Raspanti, A Attard, S Mazzola, C Porrello, R Tutino, T Fontana, N C Paladino, E Gulotta, G Salamone, G Cocorullo
BACKGROUND: Quality of care and provider's experience seem to be strictly connected in any field of surgery. Aim of this study is to identify a method to classify the centers on the basis of the number of thyroidectomies and parathyroidectomies performed. METHODS: We listed 666 centers performing endocrine neck surgery in 2015, from the database of the Italian Health Ministry. We performed a descriptive statistic analysis with a dedicated software. We identified the outliers, according to a previous literature review, in those centers performing >1000 and < 10 thyroidectomies, >100 and < 3 parathyroidectomies and we excluded them to our analysis...
September 2019: Il Giornale di Chirurgia