The use, safety and cost of bariatric surgery before and after medicare's national coverage decision

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 860-865

  Flum, David R ^a   Kwon, Steve ^a   MacLeod, Kara ^a   Wang, Bruce ^a   Alfonso Cristancho, Rafael ^a   Garrison, Louis P ^a   Sullivan, Sean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL COVERAGE DECISION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT SAFETY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855194442     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822f2101     Document Type: Article

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