title: Is it time to abandon excess weight loss in reporting surgical weight loss?
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Shahzeer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karmali
authors.forename: Daniel W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Birch
authors.forename: Arya M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000601:surgery*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015431:Weight Loss