Clinical outcomes in bariatric surgery

Poelemeijer, Y.Q.M. (2020)

Doctoral Thesis

The Dutch Audit for Treatment of Obesity (DATO) provides individual and composite outcome measures, assessing the short-term postoperative outcome after bariatric surgery, enable the possibility to identify outliers. Most importantly, individual hospitals can identify differences in outcome, whereas these may remain hidden in daily practice. This between-hospital variation may initiate an improvement cycle. This will probably result in hospital and surgical quality improvements leading to improved outcomes in bariatric surgery.

• Dutch Audit for Treatment of Obesity
• Clinical Auditing
• Registry
• Auditing
• Obesity Surgery
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
• Sleeve Gastrectomy
• Clinical Outcomes
• Outcome Measures
• Patient Reported Outcomes

• All authors: Poelemeijer, Y.Q.M.
• Supervisor: Tollenaar, R.E.A.M.
• Co-supervisor: Nienhuijs, S.W.
• Committee: Liem, R.S.L.; Pijl, H.; Greve, J.W.M.; Emous, M.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center [LUMC], Leiden University
• Date: 2020-11-25
• ISBN (print): 9789463614801