Reoperation and Medicare Expenditures After Laparoscopic Gastric Band Surgery | Zendy

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Reoperation and Medicare Expenditures After Laparoscopic Gastric Band Surgery

Author(s) -

Andrew Ibrahim,

Jyothi R. Thumma,

Justin B. Dimick

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

jama surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 2168-6262

pISSN - 2168-6254

DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.1093

Subject(s) - medicine , adjustable gastric band , retrospective cohort study , body mass index , surgery , referral , logistic regression , population , cohort , gastric bypass , obesity , weight loss , environmental health , family medicine

Following the US Food and Drug Administration approval for laparoscopic gastric band surgery in 2001, as many as 96 000 devices have been placed annually. The reported rates of reoperation range from 4% to 60% in short-term studies; however, to our knowledge, few long-term population-level data on outcomes or expenditures are known.

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