Outcomes, health status, and medical resource utilization after bariatric surgery

Comprehensive Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-38

  Gorman, R Scott ^a,d   Stern, Deborah L ^b   Inclan, Delia V ^b   Presutti, R John ^c   Swain, James M ^d   Hentz, Joseph G ^d  

^a Division of Community Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b MMSI Arizona   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NAUSEA; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33745620142     PISSN: 00988243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/COMP:32:1:34     Document Type: Article

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