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

Lu Zhang, John Scott, Lu Shi, Khoa Truong, Qingwei Hu, Joseph A Ewing and Liwei Chen

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: Background: With the epidemic of morbid obesity, bariatric surgery has been accepted as one of the most effective treatments of obesity. Objective: To investigate recent changes in the utilization of bariatric surgery, patients and hospital characteristics, and in-hospital complications in a nationwide hospital database in the United States. Setting: This is a secondary data analysis of the Premier Perspective database. Methods: ICD-9 codes were used to identify bariatric surgeries performed between 2011 and 2014. Descriptive statistics were computed and regression was used. Results: A total of 74,774 bariatric procedures were identified from 436 hospitals between 2011 and 2014. During this time period, the proportion of gastric bypass (from 44.8% to 31.3%; P for trend

Date: 2017
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