Avoidance of complications in older patients and medicare recipients undergoing gastric bypass

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 506-510

  Hallowell, Peter T ^a   Stellato, Thomas A ^a   Schuster, Margaret ^a   Graf, Kristin ^a   Robinson, Ann ^a   Jasper, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FISTULA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250738411     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.6.506     Document Type: Article

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