Impact of Functional Status on 30-day Resource Utilization and Organ System Complications Following Bariatric Surgery

Impact of Functional Status on 30-day Resource Utilization and Organ System Complications Following Index Bariatric Surgery: a Cohort Study

The goal of this observational study is to assess the effect of functional status on bariatric surgical thirty-day outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is functional status associated with higher incidence of 30-day unplanned resource utilization?
• Is functional status associated with higher incidences of secondary adverse events?

Participants will be sampled from the 2015-2019 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes: 43644, 43645, 43770, 43775, 43842, 43843, 43845, 43846, 43847
• Elective, non-emergent cases
• "General surgery" surgical specialty
• "General anesthesia" anesthetic technique

Exclusion Criteria:

• Documented concurrent or other procedures
• Patients admitted to the hospital for greater than one day preceding surgery
• Acute kidney injury (preoperative)
• End-stage renal disease (preoperative)
• Metastatic disease (preoperative)
• Wound infection (preoperative)
• Sepsis (preoperative)