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Preoperative Evaluation for Bariatric Surgery: Practice Patterns of U.S. Army Surgeons and Psychologists

Federal Practitioner. 2007 October;24(10):37
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Providing psychological evaluations to patients interested in bariatric surgery is a common practice—but one for which clear guidelines are unavailable. These investigators surveyed a group of U.S. Army surgeons and psychologists about what they want from such evaluations and how they use them.