Open AccessEarly Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Bariatric Surgical Procedures
Author(s) -
David R. Flum,
Leon Salem,
Jo Ann Elrod,
E. Patchen Dellinger,
Allen Cheadle,
Leighton Chan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.294.15.1903
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , perioperative , comorbidity , mortality rate , retrospective cohort study , cohort , body mass index , surgery , demography , sociology
Case series demonstrate that bariatric surgery can be performed with a low rate of perioperative mortality (0.5%), but the rate among high-risk patients and the community at large is unknown.
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