ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2016
Unpacking the financial costs of "bariatric tourism" gone wrong: Who holds responsibility for costs to the Canadian health care system?
Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Missing something? A scoping review of venous thromboembolic events and their associations with bariatric surgery. Refining the evidence base.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
- Report on Current Experience of ASAPS Membership and Management of Cosmetic Tourism Complications.Aesthetic surgery journal. Open forum · 2019Article
- Bariatric surgery tourism hidden costs? How Canada is not doing its part in covering bariatric surgery under theCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2017Article
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Abstract
summaryCanadians are motivated to travel abroad for bariatric surgery owing to wait times for care and restrictions on access at home for various reasons. While such surgery abroad is typically paid for privately, if "bariatric tourists" experience complications or have other essential medical needs upon their return to Canada, these costs are borne by the publicly funded health system. In this commentary, we discuss why assigning responsibility for the costs of complications stemming from bariatric tourism is complicated and contextual.
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