Bariatric surgery for the treatment of severely obese patients in south korea - Is it cost effective?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2058-2067

  Song, Hyun Jin ^a,b   Kwon, Jin Won ^a,c   Kim, Yong Jin ^a,d   Oh, Sung Hee ^a   Heo, Yoonseok ^a,e   Han, Sang Moon ^f  

^a National Evidence Based Healthcare Collaborating Agency   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^d Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Analysis; Bariatric surgery; Cost effectiveness; Cost benefit; Gastric bypass; Obesity; Quality adjusted life years

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CASE STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; GASTRIC BANDING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; KOREAN; LAPAROSCOPIC ROUX EN Y GASTRIC BYPASS; LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; SOUTH KOREA; STOMACH BYPASS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY, MORBID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889092005     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-013-0971-6     Document Type: Article

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