Trends in Insurance Coverage for Bariatric Surgery and the Impact of Evidence-Based Reviews
- 31 August 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Surgical Clinics of North America
- Vol. 85 (4), 665-680
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suc.2005.03.004
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