Abstract：
:Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) are only now beginning to be used by business, government, and policymakers to evaluate various medical treatments. The evolution of why CEAs are being demanded is reviewed. To date, a formal CEA of obesity treatments has not been published. This article outlines how a CEA is performed, reviews data relevant to setting up a formal CEA of medical and surgical obesity treatments, and lists published reports that demonstrate the effectiveness of surgical obesity treatments. The general level of discrimination that society allows the obese to suffer also allows medical insurance companies, businesses, and government to not provide many obese Americans with obesity treatments that have established a level of effectiveness far surpassing many other forms of medical therapy. CEAs of obesity treatments, by themselves, cannot be expected to reverse this discrimination. This type of data, however, provides individual obese patients and their physicians with evidence to challenge policymakers' decisions, especially when cost-effective obesity treatments are excluded or placed at a lower priority than treatments with less proven effectiveness.
journal_name
World J Surgjournal_title
World journal of surgeryauthors
Martin LF,White S,Lindstrom W Jrdoi
10.1007/s002689900508subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-09-01 00:00:00pages
1008-17issue
9eissn
0364-2313issn
1432-2323journal_volume
22pub_type
杂志文章abstract：BACKGROUND:New medical therapies available to ulcerative colitis (UC) patients have influenced operative mortality for patients requiring colectomy. We sought to examine trends in treatment and outcome for UC patients treated surgically. METHODS:A review of 36,447 UC patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample was p...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-010-0910-9
更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:A small remnant liver volume is an important risk factor for posthepatectomy liver failure and can be predicted accurately by computed tomography (CT) volumetry using radiologic image analysis software. Unfortunately, this software is expensive and usually requires support by a radiologist. ImageJ is a freel...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-007-9197-x
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The introduction of laparoscopic techniques for the management of biliary stone disease has expanded the therapeutic choices for surgeons confronted with choledocholithiasis. As new strategies emerge, the treatment of cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis remains controversial. This paper discusses the options availa...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s002689900531
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A wide range of clinical symptoms and signs are observed with venous thrombosis. Nonetheless, clinical diagnosis has been found to be unreliable and accurate diagnostic methods must be used before potent therapy such as anticoagulation is instituted, since the complications of treatment themselves can be life-threaten...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/BF01658825
更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The profile and management of self-inflicted abdominal stab wounds (SI-ASW) patients is still obscure. METHODS:The National Trauma Data Bank (2012) was queried for adults with abdominal stab wounds (n = 9544). Patients with SI-ASW (n = 1724) and non-SI-ASW (n = 7820) were compared. Predictors for non-therap...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-017-4083-7
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Early mortality in ruptured abdominal aneurysm (rAAA) is high, but data on long-term outcome are scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term outcome in survivors after open surgery for rAAA in well-defined population. METHODS:This is a population-based, observational long-term follow-up (...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-020-05457-7
更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In 141 patients with chronic pancreatitis and an inflammatory enlargement of the head of the pancreas, a duodenum-preserving resection of the head of the pancreas was performed within a 16-year period. The hospital mortality was 0.7%; the late mortality was 5%. Seventy-seven percent of the patients were completely fre...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01670550
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To investigate the learning curve and perioperative outcomes of single-site robotic cholecystectomy during the first 102 cases by a single surgeon. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database was performed on the first 102 cases of single-site robotic cholecystectomy. Patien...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-015-3135-0
更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Variceal bleeding remains an important complication in extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis (EPVT). As for portal hypertension due to other etiologies, an elective treatment to decrease the risk of subsequent rebleeding is warranted. The results of the Sugiura-Futagawa procedure (SP) in 38 patients with variceal bleedi...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00294409
更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and relative survival of rectal cancer is little investigated. We hypothesized that the impact on risk of death by SES would be much smaller when differences in background mortality (comorbidity, lifestyle factors) were taken into account, i.e. in modellin...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-014-2735-4
更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The major goal of wound healing biology is to determine how a wound can be induced to repair damaged tissue faster and more efficiently. Enhancement of dermal and epidermal regeneration is an extremely important goal for the treatment of many different types of wounds. Exogenous application of growth factors to the wo...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s00268-004-2062-2
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The management of positive ductal margins with carcinoma in situ (R1-CIS) after resection is controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of R1-CIS on survival in patients who underwent resection for distal cholangiocarcinoma. METHODS:We enrolled 121 consecutive patients with distal chola...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-020-05799-2
更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical care is critical to establish effective healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries, yet the unmet need for surgical conditions is as high as 65% in Ugandan children. Financial burden and geographical distance are common barriers to help-seeking in adult populations and are unmeasured in ...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-018-4691-x
更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The retained knife blade is an unusual and spectacular injury. The aim of this study was to review our experience with the management of such injuries. METHODS:A retrospective chart review of patients with retained knife blades treated at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre from January 1996 to December 20...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-010-0514-4
更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:The use of outcomes to evaluate surgical quality implies the need for detailed risk adjustment. The physiological and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) is a generally applicable risk adjustment model suitable for pancreatic surgery. A pancreaticoduodenectomy (...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-014-2554-7
更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) is standard therapy for patients with locally advanced breast cancer and is increasingly used for early-stage operable disease. Clinical and pathological responses are important prognostic parameters for NC, which aims to achieve a pathological complete response or tumor reducti...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-008-9800-9
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Abdominal infections are treated by resuscitation, abdominal drainage, control of the source of infection, and antimicrobial agents. Ideally, antimicrobial therapy is active against expected pathogens, safe and effective in clinical trials, inexpensive, and unlikely to promote drug resistance. Numerous single-agent an...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s002689900363
更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal extent of lung resection and lymph nodes dissection for peripheral early-stage right middle non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) still remains controversial. In this study, we analyzed the patterns of lymph nodes metastasis (LNM) of patients with peripheral right middle NSCLC ≤ 3 cm, aiming to prov...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-020-05647-3
更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed postoperative complications in 105 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma who underwent hepatectomy at Nagoya University Hospital from January 1990 through March 1999. Of the 105 subjects, 97 (92.4%) underwent resection of two or more Healey's segments of the liver. Combined portal vein res...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-001-0110-8
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The pancreatic fistula rate following distal pancreatectomy ranges widely, from 13.3 to 64.0 %. The optimal closure method of the pancreatic remnant remains controversial, especially regarding whether to use a stapler. METHODS:All patients who underwent distal pancreatectomy in five Japanese hospitals from ...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1007/s00268-012-1595-z
更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:There are scant studies that have analyzed the prognostic factors for malignant nonfunctioning endocrine tumors of the pancreas. We identified the predictive factors associated with long-term survival after surgical resection for malignant nonfunctioning endocrine tumors. METHODS:Among the 25 patients seen ...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-006-0585-4
更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Duct-to-mucosa pancreatojejunostomy after pancreatoduodenectomy can be technically difficult, particularly in cases with a non-dilated pancreatic duct. We devised a novel procedure employing a pancreatic duct holder and mucosa squeeze-out technique facilitating duct-to-mucosa anastomosis. We compared the per...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-016-3659-y
更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'gentle' handling of tissue (i.e., 'respect for tissue') is a fundamental aspect of surgical performance and learning. To date, there have been no methodological assessments that quantitatively measure 'gentleness.' Therefore, the aims of this study were (1) to propose a novel metric for gentle surgical ...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-019-05018-7
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Fifty patients reoperated for failed Nissen fundoplication are presented; 29 patients (group 2) were operated between 1983 and 1988 while 21 patients (group 1) were operated before 1983. In group 1, the "slipped Nissen" had been the most frequent cause of reoperation (48%). In group 2, the most frequent causes for the...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01658439
更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The appropriate surgical approach for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients of Child-Pugh class B is unclear. The aim of this study was to clarify the prognostic factors after hepatectomy in Child-Pugh class B patients and to delineate the selection criteria for hepatectomy. METHODS:One hundred fifty pati...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-010-0929-y
更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The lack of sufficient suitable human donor lungs for the many patients requiring pulmonary transplantation as life-saving therapy for end-stage lung diseases has generated extensive interest in cross-species lung transplantation. Ethical concerns and those of animal rights advocates have prompted studies of nonprimat...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/s002689900332
更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine if intrabiliary rupture (IBR), an evolutive complication of hepatic echinococcosis (HE), is a risk factor for developing postoperative morbidity (POM). METHODS:This was a concurrent cohort study that included patients operated on for HE between 1996 and 2006 and who ha...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-009-0322-x
更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the optimal dose of garlic during long-term feeding and its preventive and therapeutic effects on colon cancer in rats induced by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). A total of 240 male Sprague-Dawley rats were grouped and fed with either a basal or a garlic diet of different concentrat...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF00294738
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Literature suggests that patient-informing process prior to obtaining surgical informed consent (SIC) does not function well. This study aimed to provide insight into the current practice of SIC in the Netherlands. METHODS:This is a prospective, observational, and multicenter study, conducted in one academi...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1007/s00268-018-4804-6
更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Esophagectomy remains the standard treatment for resectable esophageal cancer, but the cure rate is low. Neoadjuvant therapy has been tried in attempts to prolong survival and reduce tumor recurrence. The aim of this study was to assess the surgical outcomes with and without neoadjuvant treatment for resecta...
journal_title：World journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00268-006-0016-6
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
