Why the NHS should do more bariatric surgery; how much should we do?:
- 11 May 2016
- Vol. 353, i1472
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1472
Abstract
The number of people getting bariatric surgery is falling despite rising rates of obesity and diabetes. Richard Welbourn and colleagues examine why and argue that better access has potential to reduce long term costs of careThis publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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