Return to work after gastric bypass in medicaid-funded morbidly obese patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 935-940

  Wagner, Amy J ^a   Fabry Jr , Joseph M ^a   Thirlby, Richard C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNDING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MORBID OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGEON; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORK;

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348967354     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.10.935     Document Type: Article

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