Meta-Analysis
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Methodol. May 20, 2022; 12(3): 148-163
Published online May 20, 2022. doi: 10.5662/wjm.v12.i3.148
Assessment of diagnostic capacity and decision-making based on the 2015 American Thyroid Association ultrasound classification system
Luis-Mauricio Hurtado-Lopez, Alfredo Carrillo-Muñoz, Felipe-Rafael Zaldivar-Ramirez, Erich Otto Paul Basurto-Kuba, Blanca-Estela Monroy-Lozano
Luis-Mauricio Hurtado-Lopez, Department of Surgery, Thyroid Clinic, Hospital General de Mexico, Mexico City 06720, Mexico
Alfredo Carrillo-Muñoz, Felipe-Rafael Zaldivar-Ramirez, Erich Otto Paul Basurto-Kuba, Blanca-Estela Monroy-Lozano, Thyroid Clinic, General Surgery Service, Hospital General de Mexico, Mexico 06726, Mexico
Author contributions: Hurtado-López LM contributed to conceptualization; and all authors contributed in methodology, investigation, original drafting, and final approval.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest to disclose.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Luis-Mauricio Hurtado-Lopez, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Thyroid Clinic, Hospital General de Mexico, Dr. Balmis 148, Doctores, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City 06720, Mexico. hurtado@clinicadetiroides.com.mx
Received: December 22, 2021
Peer-review started: December 22, 2021
First decision: February 8, 2022
Revised: February 27, 2022
Accepted: April 24, 2022
Article in press: April 24, 2022
Published online: May 20, 2022
Processing time: 147 Days and 2.3 Hours
Core Tip

Core Tip: There is no analysis that evaluates the real diagnostic value of the 2015 American Thyroid Association thyroid nodule risk patterns and their usefulness for clinical decision-making; thus, we undertook this study to quantify both values.