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Conflicts of interest

Dr. Ronald H. Clements is a consultant for Olympus, was on a review panel for Covidien, and was on an advisory committee for Cardinal Healthcare/Snowden-Pencer. Dr. Julio A. Teixeira was a consultant for Novare and for Ethicon Endoscopy, was on the advisory committee for Allergan Inc., and was a speaker/teacher for Covidien. Dr. Robert D. Fanelli is a board member of New Wave Surgical Corporation, received honoraria from Ethicon Endo-Surgery for speaking/teaching, received honoraria from Boston Scientific Corporation, Inc for speaking/teaching, and was an independent contractor for Cook Surgical, Inc. Drs. David Provost, William S. Richardson, and Alan A. Saber have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclosure.

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  1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Ronald Clements

  2. Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Alan Saber

  3. St. Luke’s Roosevelt, New York, NY, USA

    Julio Teixeira

  4. UT Southwestern, Provo, UT, USA

    David Provost

  5. Surgical Specialists of Western New England, PC, Pittsfield, MA, USA

    Robert Fanelli

  6. Department of Surgery, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA

    William Richardson

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Disclaimer: Guidelines for clinical practice are intended to indicate preferable approaches to medical problems as established by experts in the field. These recommendations will be based on existing data or a consensus of expert opinion when little or no data are available.

Guidelines are applicable to all physicians who address the clinical problem(s) without regard to specialty training or interests, and are intended to indicate the preferable, but not necessarily the only acceptable approaches due to the complexity of the healthcare environment. Guidelines are intended to be flexible. Given the wide range of specifics in any health care problem, the surgeon must always choose the course best suited to the individual patient and the variables in existence at the moment of decision.

Guidelines are developed under the auspices of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and its various committees, and approved by the Board of Governors. Each clinical practice guideline has been systematically researched, reviewed, and revised by the guidelines committee, and reviewed by an appropriate multidisciplinary team. The recommendations are considered valid at the time of its production based on the data available. Each guideline is scheduled for periodic review to allow incorporation of pertinent new developments in medical research knowledge and practice.

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This document was prepared and revised by the SAGES Guidelines Committee:

Ronald Clements, MD

Alan Saber, MD

Julio Teixeira, MD

David Provost, MD (Bariatric Liaison Group)

Robert Fanelli, MD (Chair)

William Richardson, MD (Co-Chair)

Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD

James Korndorffer, MD

D. Wayne Overby, MD

David Earle, MD

Geoffrey Kohn, MD

Keith Apelgren, MD

Alana Chuck, MD

Timothy Farrell, MD

Keith Gersin, MD

Jeffrey Hazey, MD

Ted Khalili, MD

Erika Fellinger, MD

Stephen Haggerty, MD

Steven Heneghan, MD

James Korndorffer, MD

Thom Lobe, MD

Sumeet Mittal, MD

Jonathan Myers, MD

Raymond Price, MD

Patrick Reardon, MD

William Reed, MD

David Renton, MD

E. Matt Ritter, MD

J. Salameh, MD

It was reviewed and approved by SAGES Bariatric Liaison Group and the Board of Governors of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), July 2009.

For additional information, visit: http://sages.org/publications/guidelines/guidelines.php

This is a revision of SAGES publication originally printed 5/03.

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Clements, R., Saber, A., Teixeira, J. et al. Guidelines for institutions granting bariatric privileges utilizing laparoscopic techniques. Surg Endosc 25, 671–676 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-010-1364-8

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