title: Hospital Accreditation and Bariatric Surgery: Is It Important?
authors: University of California Irvine Medical Center, 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 1600, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
authors: Juan J
authors: JJ
authors: Blondet
authors: Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3680, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors: John M
authors: JM
authors: Morton
authors: University of California Irvine Medical Center, 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 1600, Orange, CA 92868, USA. Electronic address: ninhn@uci.edu.
authors: Ninh T
authors: NT
authors: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care
keywords: ASMBS; Bariatric surgery accreditation; CMS; Center of excellence; MBSAQIP; Surgical outcomes