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Is Bariatric Surgery Effective in Reducing Comorbidities and Drug Costs? A Systematic Review and Met...

Is Bariatric Surgery Effective in Reducing Comorbidities and Drug Costs? A Systematic Review and Met...

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Is Bariatric Surgery Effective in Reducing Comorbidities and Drug Costs? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Full title

Is Bariatric Surgery Effective in Reducing Comorbidities and Drug Costs? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Publisher

New York: Springer US

Journal title

Obesity surgery, 2015-09, Vol.25 (9), p.1741-1749

Language

English

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Publication information

Publisher

New York: Springer US

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Scope and Contents

Contents

The aim of this study was to assess drug use and costs before and after bariatric surgery (BS). A systematic review of the literature was carried out using the MeSH terms
obesity
,
bariatric surgery
, and
drug costs
for searches of 10 electronic databases up to July 2014. Data were extracted from the 11 studies (37,720 patients) t...

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Full title

Is Bariatric Surgery Effective in Reducing Comorbidities and Drug Costs? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1701346147

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1701346147

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ISSN

0960-8923

E-ISSN

1708-0428

DOI

10.1007/s11695-015-1777-5

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