Hiroshi Takami
Editor-in-Chief
Yasuhiro Ito ● Hitoshi Noguchi
Akira Yoshida ● Takahiro Okamoto
Editors

2013

Japanese Clinical Guidelines

Creating clinical guidelines is a modern trend. It is clearly bene fi cial to collect published studies pertaining to a given theme, evaluate their credibility, and then present recommended treatment options in the form of evidence-based guidelines. Thus, a Japanese “Clinical Guideline for the Treatment of Thyroid Tumor” was desired by many clinicians. On the other hand, there were counter-arguments and lively debates on the wisdom of creating such a guideline in light of Japan’s restrictions on the use of radioisotopes and the fact that this is a relatively common disease with wide discrepancies in preferred treatment, even among specialists.