Impact of accreditation in bariatric surgery

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 767-773

  Gebhart, Alana ^a   Young, Monica ^a   Phelan, Michael ^a   Nguyen, Ninh T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric accreditation; Center of excellence; CMS national coverage determination

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACCREDITATION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH BYPASS; WOUND COMPLICATION; HOSPITAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACCREDITATION; BARIATRIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924967634     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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