Complications, death rates similar at bariatric surgery centres of excellence

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 08:28 in Health & Medicine

Patients who undergo bariatric surgery at hospitals designated as centres of excellence do not appear to have lower mortality rates or lower rates of complications than those whose procedures are performed at other hospitals, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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