Hospital Accreditation and Bariatric Surgery: Is It Important?

Adv Surg. 2015:49:123-9. doi: 10.1016/j.yasu.2015.03.012. Epub 2015 Apr 25.

Authors

Juan J Blondet¹, John M Morton², Ninh T Nguyen³

Affiliations

¹ University of California Irvine Medical Center, 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 1600, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
² Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3680, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
³ University of California Irvine Medical Center, 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 1600, Orange, CA 92868, USA. Electronic address: ninhn@uci.edu.

PMID: 26299494
DOI: 10.1016/j.yasu.2015.03.012

No abstract available

Keywords: ASMBS; Bariatric surgery accreditation; CMS; Center of excellence; MBSAQIP; Surgical outcomes.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Accreditation*
Bariatric Surgery*
Hospitals / standards*
Humans
Obesity, Morbid / surgery*
Outcome Assessment, Health Care*