Our
team works closely with members of many other programs and specialties at Boston Children's, including
bariatric surgery, dentistry, Down Syndrome Program, gastroenterology, oral
surgery, otolaryngology and communication, pain treatment and psychiatry / psychology.
All had their operations with surgical
teams taking part in Michigan's statewide
bariatric surgery quality initiative, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the study's senior author Jonathan Fin
bariatric surgery quality initiative, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the study's senior author Jonathan Finks
surgery quality initiative, the Michigan
Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the study's senior author Jonathan Fin
Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the study's senior author Jonathan Finks
Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the study's senior author Jonathan Finks, M.D..
Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research
team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent
bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their
surgery was available.