A new study presented at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery 30th annual meeting reaffirms that bariatric surgery mortality rates are lower when performed in an accredited surgery center.
Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, FACS, vice chair of the department of surgery at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, co-authored the study along with Christopher Armstrong, MD, Michael Phelan, PhD, and Alana Gebhart also of UC Irvine.
The study results come after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid dropped its accreditation requirement for bariatric surgery facilities.
At accredited centers, the study found the mortality rate for the sickest patients to be 0.17 percent, while the mortality rate at non-accredited centers was 0.45 percent.
To achieve bariatric surgery accreditation, a facility must have surgeons perform a minimum of 50 bariatric procedures each year, equipment designed for morbidly obese patients and staff specifically trained in metabolic and bariatric surgery.
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Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, FACS, vice chair of the department of surgery at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, co-authored the study along with Christopher Armstrong, MD, Michael Phelan, PhD, and Alana Gebhart also of UC Irvine.
The study results come after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid dropped its accreditation requirement for bariatric surgery facilities.
At accredited centers, the study found the mortality rate for the sickest patients to be 0.17 percent, while the mortality rate at non-accredited centers was 0.45 percent.
To achieve bariatric surgery accreditation, a facility must have surgeons perform a minimum of 50 bariatric procedures each year, equipment designed for morbidly obese patients and staff specifically trained in metabolic and bariatric surgery.
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