Bariatric surgery insurance requirements independently predict surgery dropout
- 14 January 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
- Vol. 13 (5), 871-876
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2017.01.022
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