American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimation of bariatric surgery procedures in the United States, 2011-2014

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2015 Nov-Dec;11(6):1199-200. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2015.08.496. Epub 2015 Aug 12.

Authors

Jaime Ponce¹, Ninh T Nguyen², Matthew Hutter³, Ranjan Sudan⁴, John M Morton⁵

Affiliations

¹ Chattanooga Bariatrics, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Electronic address: JPonceMD@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California.
³ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

PMID: 26476493
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2015.08.496

No abstract available

Keywords: ASMBS; Bariatric surgery numbers.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Bariatric Surgery / standards*
Bariatric Surgery / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Metabolic Diseases / epidemiology
Metabolic Diseases / surgery*
Morbidity / trends
Obesity, Morbid / epidemiology
Obesity, Morbid / surgery*
Quality Improvement*
Retrospective Studies
Societies, Medical*
United States / epidemiology