What matters after sleeve gastrectomy: patient characteristics or surgical technique?

The impact of operative technique on outcomes in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has been explored previously; however, the relative importance of patient characteristics remains unknown. Our aim was to characterize national variability in operative technique for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and determine whether patient-specific factors are more critical to predicting outcomes.We queried the database of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery...