Comment on “The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator: 1. 30-Day Risk”

The creation and implementation of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) under the auspices of the American College of Surgeons has enabled the field of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) to benefit from, and show the benefits of, big data. The age of the single surgeon or the institutional series is dead; the age of big data involving hundreds of thousands of patients has arrived. Big data is not new but is finally being applied routinely to medicine. How we use this data to improve outcomes for our patients is now the question.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research