TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic, therapeutic and health-care management protocol in thyroid surgery: a position statement of the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (U.E.C. CLUB).
AU - Rosato, L.
AU - De Crea, Carmela
AU - Bellantone, Rocco Domenico Alfonso
AU - Brandi, M. L.
AU - De Toma, G.
AU - De Toma, Giorgio
AU - Filetti, S.
AU - Miccoli, P.
AU - Pacini, F.
AU - Pelizzo, M. R.
AU - Pontecorvi, Alfredo
AU - Avenia, N.
AU - De Pasquale, L.
AU - De Pasquale, Tiziana Maria Angela
AU - Chiofalo, M. G.
AU - Gurrado, A.
AU - Innaro, N.
AU - La Valle, G.
AU - Lavalle, Angela
AU - Lombardi, Celestino Pio
AU - Marini, P. L.
AU - Mondini, G.
AU - Mullineris, B.
AU - Pezzullo, L.
AU - Pezzullo, Angelo Maria
AU - Raffaelli, Marco
AU - Testini, M.
AU - De Palma, M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - PURPOSE:
The diagnostic, therapeutic and health-care management protocol (Protocollo Gestionale Diagnostico-Terapeutico-Assistenziale, PDTA) by the Association of the Italian Endocrine Surgery Units (U.E.C. CLUB) aims to help treat the patient in a topical, rational way that can be shared by health-care professionals.
METHODS:
This fourth consensus conference involved: a selected group of experts in the preliminary phase; all members, via e-mail, in the elaboration phase; all the participants of the XI National Congress of the U.E.C. CLUB held in Naples in the final phase. The following were examined: diagnostic pathway and clinical evaluation; mode of admission and waiting time; therapeutic pathway (patient preparation for surgery, surgical treatment, postoperative management, management of major complications); hospital discharge and patient information; outpatient care and follow-up.
RESULTS:
A clear and concise style was adopted to illustrate the reasons and scientific rationales behind behaviors and to provide health-care professionals with a guide as complete as possible on who, when, how and why to act. The protocol is meant to help the surgeon to treat the patient in a topical, rational way that can be shared by health-care professionals, but without influencing in any way the physician-patient relationship, which is based on trust and clinical judgment in each individual case.
CONCLUSIONS:
The PDTA in thyroid surgery approved by the fourth consensus conference (June 2015) is the official PDTA of U.E.C. CLUB.
AB - PURPOSE:
The diagnostic, therapeutic and health-care management protocol (Protocollo Gestionale Diagnostico-Terapeutico-Assistenziale, PDTA) by the Association of the Italian Endocrine Surgery Units (U.E.C. CLUB) aims to help treat the patient in a topical, rational way that can be shared by health-care professionals.
METHODS:
This fourth consensus conference involved: a selected group of experts in the preliminary phase; all members, via e-mail, in the elaboration phase; all the participants of the XI National Congress of the U.E.C. CLUB held in Naples in the final phase. The following were examined: diagnostic pathway and clinical evaluation; mode of admission and waiting time; therapeutic pathway (patient preparation for surgery, surgical treatment, postoperative management, management of major complications); hospital discharge and patient information; outpatient care and follow-up.
RESULTS:
A clear and concise style was adopted to illustrate the reasons and scientific rationales behind behaviors and to provide health-care professionals with a guide as complete as possible on who, when, how and why to act. The protocol is meant to help the surgeon to treat the patient in a topical, rational way that can be shared by health-care professionals, but without influencing in any way the physician-patient relationship, which is based on trust and clinical judgment in each individual case.
CONCLUSIONS:
The PDTA in thyroid surgery approved by the fourth consensus conference (June 2015) is the official PDTA of U.E.C. CLUB.
KW - thyroid
KW - thyroid
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/154605
U2 - 10.1007/s40618-016-0455-3
DO - 10.1007/s40618-016-0455-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0391-4097
VL - 39
SP - 939
EP - 953
JO - Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
JF - Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
ER -