Related readmission after thyroid surgery

What this data shows:

May act as a surrogate measure of overall early complications.

How the data is gathered:

Surgeons may differ in deciding whether or not re-admission is related to the index admission.

Rates are not risk-adjusted eg to allow for extent of surgery or the range of pathology treated.

More information about the data source:

Data are only available for those surgeons who are members of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS), and who submitted data to the audit over the relevant time period. Data are self-reported and have not been independently verified against other data sources.

Data Source:

The data are taken from UK Register of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgery, operated by the BAETS and Dendrite Clinical Systems Ltd.

Data Period:

Cases operated upon between 1st of July 2012 and 30th of June 2016 inclusive

Data Supplier:

British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons and Dendrite Clinical Systems Ltd.