Abstract:a. To determine in what proportion of thyroid cytology reports a "Thy" category is included as well as a prose explanation of the findings.b. To determine the percentage of cases that fall into each Thy category.c. To correlate cytology with subsequent histology in order to determine diagnostic accuracy and the PPV for neoplasia and malignancy in each Thy category. In addition to the audit criteria, the sensitivity, the specificity, false negative rate, false positive rate and overall accuracy should be calcul… Show more
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