Measuring the Quality of Thyroid Cancer Care
The Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center provides comprehensive and cutting-edge diagnostic services and clinical care for thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases, along with research, education, and community service activities related to these conditions.
The Thyroid Cancer Center is designated as one of Cedars-Sinai's 23 centers of excellence. It includes a world-class team of outstanding physicians from a variety of sub-specialties. These physicians work together to promote the best possible medical care.
Board-Certified Expertise in Thyroid Cancer Care
Every physician at the Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center is board-certified.
Board certification is the process by which a physician is tested in a medical specialty field. The requirements are determined by a board of specialists in that field, and demonstrate a physician's expertise in it. At Cedars-Sinai, physicians are required to be board certified to be a member of a clinical Center of Excellence.
Measuring the Quality of Care at the Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center
The Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center monitors the type and volumes of procedures done. The table below reflects these data for the past three years.
| Volume and Types of Procedures Done at the Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Thyroid, parathyroid and cervical lymph node dissections | 329 | 373 | 398 |
| Fine needle aspiration biopsies | 1,121 | 1,413 | 1,415 |
