Geographic and socioeconomic factors affecting delivery of bariatric surgery across high- and low-utilization healthcare systems.
Aristithes G DoumourasF SalehA M SharmaS AnvariS GmoraM AnvariD HongPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2017)
In this study, across provincial healthcare systems with high and low utilization, the delivery of care was driven by the presence of local facilities and neighbourhood obesity rates. Increasing distance to bariatric centres substantially influenced care delivery.