Early Predictors of Hypocalcemia After Total Thyroidectomy

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Because of the current strain on the US health care system, increasing emphasis is being placed on outpatient management of conditions that necessitate surgical procedures. In the modern era, a paradigm shift has taken place in which an increasing number of operations that were previously managed with postoperative hospitalization are now commonly accomplished as outpatient procedures.1-3 Similarly, total thyroidectomy is now being performed as a short-stay or even an outpatient procedure at some medical centers.4 However, this shift in management has occurred in the absence of consensus and evidence-based parameters for defining the population of patients eligible to undergo outpatient total thyroidectomy.5

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