Cost-effectiveness analysis of cholecystectomy during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 363-375

  Benarroch Gampel, Jaime ^a   Lairson, David R ^b   Boyd, Casey A ^a   Sheffield, Kristin M ^a   Ho, Vivian ^c   Riall, Taylor S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBID OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TEXAS; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 84865791900     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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