Gastric Surgery: Group of procedures performed by surgeons with similar skills–an operation to remove a portion or all of the stomach; or complete removal of the entire stomach through a surgical incision; or the surgical removal of a portion of the stomach through a surgical incision; or the removal of a portion or all of the stomach through a scope rather than an open incision; or bariatric (obesity) surgery: group of procedures performed by surgeons with similar skills to remove or bypass portions of the stomach and/or small intestine, either an open surgery, or through a laparoscope that is passed through the abdominal wall where surgery is designed to reduce total food intake and promote weight loss.
Find the best surgeons Checkbook has identified as having better-than-average outcomes based on analysis of more than four million surgeries done for hospital inpatients by more than 50,000 surgeons.
Some surgeons' patients have much higher rates of deaths and other bad outcomes than other surgeons'. This shows the percentage of bad outcomes for the best-performing one-tenth of surgeons, the average surgeon, and the worst performing one-tenth of surgeons.
