Bariatric surgery interest around the world: What Google Trends can teach us

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 533-538

  Linkov, Faina ^a   Bovbjerg, Dana H ^b   Freese, Kyle E ^a   Ramanathan, Ramesh ^c   Eid, George Michel ^c   Gourash, William ^d  

^a Department of Research and Evaluation Kaiser Permanente Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery interest; Google Trends; Internet; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GASTRIC BAND; GASTRIC SLEEVE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE; STOMACH BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRENDS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNET; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84903276382     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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