Health status, quality of life, and satisfaction of patients awaiting multidisciplinary bariatric care
Open Access
- 8 June 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 12 (1), 139
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-139
Abstract
Protracted, multi-year wait times exist for bariatric care in Canada. Our objective was to examine wait-listed patients’ health status and perceptions regarding the consequences of prolonged wait times using a cross-sectional study design nested within a prospective cohort.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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