Unexpected discrepancies in hospital administrative databases can impact the accuracy of monitoring thyroid surgery outcomes in France

• Frederic Mercier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederic Mercier, Nathalie Laplace

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fredmdmercier@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, Lyon Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France, Surgical oncology department, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montreal, Montreal, Qc, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0468-6778

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• Nathalie Laplace ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederic Mercier, Nathalie Laplace

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, Lyon Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France

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• Elliot J. Mitmaker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Qc, Canada

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• Cyrille Colin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pôle Information Médicale Evaluation Recherche Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Jean-Louis Kraimps,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Endocrine Surgery, Poitiers University, Jean Bernard Hospital, Poitiers, France

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• Frederic Sebag,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France

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• Stephanie Bourdy,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pôle Information Médicale Evaluation Recherche Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

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• Antoine Duclos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pôle Information Médicale Evaluation Recherche Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital—Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, EA 7425 HESPER, Health Services and Performance Research, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Domaine Rockefeller, Lyon, France

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• Jean-Christophe Lifante,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, Lyon Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France, EA 7425 HESPER, Health Services and Performance Research, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Domaine Rockefeller, Lyon, France

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• On Behalf of The CATHY Study Group

  ¶Membership of this group is provided in the acknowledgments

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