Improved bariatric surgery outcomes for medicare beneficiaries after implementation of the medicare national coverage determination

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-78

  Nguyen, Ninh T ^a   Hohmann, Samuel ^b   Slone, Johnathan ^a   Varela, Esteban ^a   Smith, Brian R ^a   Hoyt, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University HealthSystem Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORBID OBESITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549148165     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.228     Document Type: Article

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