Patients’ preferences impact on decision making for clinical solitary thyroid nodule in a global healthcare setting: A clinical study

Evaluation of patients' preferences (PP) impact on decision-making for solitary thyroid nodule management. Study Design: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data in patients with clinical solitary nodules admitted for thyroid surgery. PP survey in various management strategies included determinants of surgery, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), frozen section (FS), and PP for total thyroidectomy (TT) or total lobectomy (TL) compared to guidelines concordance.