Bariatrics
Reports from Southwestern Medical Center advance knowledge in bariatrics
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, November 9th, 2007
Fresh data on bariatrics are presented in the report 'When policy meets statistics: the very real effect that questionable statistical analysis has on limiting health care access for bariatric surgery.' "HYPOTHESIS: Bariatric surgery for Medicare patients must be performed in an accredited hospital that performs at least 125 cases per year. We assessed the validity of this volume threshold and its policy implications," researchers in the United States report.
"Using the 2001-2003 National Inpatient Survey, the effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality was statistically modeled and the effect of a 125-case per year threshold on access to bariatric surgery was...
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