The study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, showed risk for 30-day mortality for these patients was at least double that of patients discharged two days after surgery.
Many insurers cover hospitalization for just one day after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.
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