de Meireles, Alirio
Carlin, Arthur M.
Cain-Nielsen, Anne
Stricklen, Amanda
Ross, Rachel
Finks, Jonathan F.
Varban, Oliver A.
Ghaferi, Amir A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8779-7726
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (5K08HS02362 and P30HS024403)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (N/A)
Article History
First Online: 16 February 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Dr. Ghaferi is supported through grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Grant Nos.: 5K08HS02362 and P30HS024403) and a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Award (CE-1304-6596). Dr. Ghaferi receives salary support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan as the Director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative.Drs. Finks and Varban receive salary support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in association with their participation in the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative.The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest nor sources of outside funding to declare.