Changes in utilization and peri-operative outcomes of bariatric surgery in large U.S. hospital database, 2011-2014.

With the epidemic of morbid obesity, bariatric surgery has been accepted as one of the most effective treatments of obesity.To investigate recent changes in the utilization of bariatric surgery, patients and hospital characteristics, and in-hospital complications in a nationwide hospital database in...

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Main Authors: Lu Zhang, John Scott, Lu Shi, Khoa Truong, Qingwei Hu, Joseph A Ewing, Liwei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5650154?pdf=render