Society guideline links: Hyperthyroidism

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Thyroid disease and pregnancy" and "Society guideline links: Pediatric thyroid disorders".)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order thyroid function tests as screening for asymptomatic, low risk patients (updated 2021)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendation on screening adults for asymptomatic thyroid dysfunction in primary care (2019)

United States

●American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES): Guidelines for the definitive surgical management of thyroid disease in adults (2020)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin on thyroid disease in pregnancy (2020)

●American Thyroid Association (ATA): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of thyroid disease during pregnancy and the postpartum (2017)

●ATA: Guidelines for diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis (2016)

●ATA: Practice recommendations for radiation safety in the treatment of patients with thyroid diseases by radioiodine 131I (2011)

Europe

●European Thyroid Association (ETA): Guideline for the management of pediatric Graves' disease (2022)

●ETA: Guideline on thyroid disorders prior to and during assisted reproduction (2021)

●ETA: Guidelines for the management of iodine-based contrast media-induced thyroid dysfunction (2021)

●European Group on Graves' Orbitopathy (EUGOGO): Clinical practice guidelines for the medical management of Graves' orbitopathy (2021)

●ETA: Guidelines on the management of thyroid dysfunction following immune reconstitution therapy (2019)

●ETA: Guideline for the management of Graves' hyperthyroidism (2018)

●ETA: Guidelines for the management of amiodarone-associated thyroid dysfunction (2018)

●ETA: Guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of endogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism (2015)

●ETA: Guidelines for the management of familial and persistent sporadic non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism caused by thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor germline mutations (2012)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on thyroid disease – Assessment and management (2019)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance – Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't test thyroid function as population screening for asymptomatic patients (reviewed 2016)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't routinely order a thyroid ultrasound in patients with abnormal thyroid function tests if there is no palpable abnormality of the thyroid gland (reviewed 2015)