thyroid cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Using a Japanese national inpatient database, we identified patients with thyroid cancer who underwent thyroidectomy from July 2010 to March 2017.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: We excluded patients whose preoperative diagnosis was poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma, anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, or malignant lymphoma, patients who also had Graves' disease or Hashimoto disease, and patients who underwent another operation for conditions other than complications of thyroidectomy during the hospitalization.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| the occurrence of postoperative complications | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| duration of anesthesia, length of stay, total costs, in-hospital mortality, and 30-day readmission rate | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
The University of Tokyo Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine