Erschienen in:
08.05.2020 | Letter to Editor/LED Reply
Malpractice Claims in Bariatric Surgery in Spain vs France
verfasst von:
Marco Nunziante, Radwan Kassir
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2020
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We would like to thank the authors for their comment on our study and showing us their results on bariatric malpractice in Spain. The value of this type of scientific contributions is stressed by the relative paucity of publications and analyses of bariatric surgical malpractice litigation. In 2016, the World Health Organization has reported the obesity prevalence among adults to be 13% worldwide, 27.1% in Spain and 23.2% in France. The annual incidence of bariatric surgeries in Spain was reported to be 6000 cases in 2011, and the number is gradually increasing every year. According to the National Registry of Spain, from 2010 to 2014, the most common type of bariatric surgery is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB 42.6%), followed by sleeve gastrectomy (SG 39.6%) [
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