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Friday Aug 10, 2018
Friday Aug 10, 2018
November 2005 Author in the Room® Teleconference
Author: David R. Flum, MD
Article: "Early Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Bariatric Surgical Procedures"
Summary Points:
- Patients 65 years or older have a much higher risk of early death than younger patients after bariatric (obesity) surgery.
- Already a high-risk population, Medicare medically disabled patients have a higher risk of early death after bariatric (obesity) surgery is performed than previously reported.
- Older patients of more experienced bariatric surgeons had a much lower risk of death than those older patients whose surgeons had less experience performing the surgery.
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