The British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS, previously the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons) is pleased to announce the publication of the Second National Endocrine Surgery Audit Report, published by Dendrite Clinical Systems. This latest publication documents the demographics, investigation, surgery and outcomes of patients with endocrine disease in the United Kingdom.
It is the aim of the report to record the current status of endocrine surgery in the UK and it is hoped that this latest audit will provide valuable insights into the outcomes, workload and assist in the structure of training programmes for future endocrine surgeons.
The aim of the Audit is to build a national picture of the practice of various pathologies. By recording the outcomes of investigations, operations and in particular complications, it allows members to compare their outcomes with National data, commented Mr David Scott-Coombes, Director of the BAETS Audit and Consultant in Endocrine Surgery at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK. In addition, by establishing individual workloads, the Audit provides information that we hope will encourage national debates, such as who should be a national training unit and how many centres are needed to undertake surgery for rare illnesses. In addition, the audit records the amount of surgical training that individual members provide. This latest report will show that the BAETS is a truly professional body demonstrating its commitment to audit.
Since the launch of BAETS web-based data entry system in August 2005, some 11,000 endocrine operations have been submitted by BAETS members on surgery to the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas. Prior to the BAETS involvement with Dendrite the audit did not exist. A paper pilot was undertaken, designed by the members of the Executive committee (of the BAETS) that specified the data that the Association wished to be gathered. The BAETS engaged Den
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