Clinical pathway for the surgical management of thyroid disease        ZHANG Hao. Department of General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China
Corresponding author: ZHANG Hao，E-mail: haozhang@mail.cmu.edu.cn
Abstract    Clinical pathway is a new mode for monopathy quality management and occupational benchmarking of medical service developed in recent years. Clinical pathway scale for surgeon, clinical pathway notice for patients and clinical pathway flow chart for surgeon and so on were used to management of patients performed thyroid surgery tentatively at the First Hospital of China Medical University. Clinical pathway implementation can well the standard medical behavior, shorten the hospitalization time, reduce the medical costs, guarantee the medical quality, improve the patient satisfaction and achieve good economic and social efficiency. The use of clinical pathway specifically designed for the management of the operation for thyroid disease will result in the improved outcomes of patients.