Hospital Length of Stay after Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery by Race/Ethnicity and Procedure Type among Florida Patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Although LAGB is considered the least invasive MBS, recipients tend to stay longer in hospital after adjustment for health insurance and sociodemographic factors. Medical and socioecological reasons for racial-ethnic variations in LOS relating MBS should be explored further. PMID: 32197897 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32197897?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of the National Medical Association - March 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: J Natl Med Assoc Source Type: research