Benchmarking Best Practices in Weight Loss Surgery

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-174

  Lim, Robert B ^a   Blackburn, George L ^b   Jones, Daniel B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; CITRATE CALCIUM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ERGOCALCIFEROL; FOLIC ACID; IRON; MULTIVITAMIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; RETINOL; THIAMINE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP; ZINC;

ACCREDITATION; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY MASS; BONE GROWTH; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CALCIUM OXALATE STONE; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM ULCER; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; EXERCISE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GALLSTONE FORMATION; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROENTEROSTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRON DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALABSORPTION; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECIDIVISM; REFERENCE VALUE; REOPERATION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK REDUCTION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SPLEEN INJURY; STEATORRHEA; STOMACH ANTRUM PROLAPSE; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549123926     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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