William A. Sweet
Reading Hospital
9 Papers
39 Citations
William A. Sweet is an academic researcher from Reading Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient safety & Medical malpractice. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications. Previous affiliations of William A. Sweet include National Patient Safety Foundation.
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Papers
Open versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a comparative study of over 25,000 open cases and the major laparoscopic bariatric reported series.
Kenneth B Jones,Joseph D. Afram,Peter N. Benotti,Rafael F. Capella,C. Gary Cooper,Latham Flanagan,Steven Hendrick,L. Michael Howell,Mark T. Jaroch,Kerry Kole,Oscar C. Lirio,James A Sapala,Michael P Schuhknecht,Robert P Shapiro,William A. Sweet,Michael H. Wood +15 more
TL;DR: The higher cost, higher leak rate, higher rate of small bowel obstruction, and similar long-term weight loss results make the "open" RYGBP the authors' preferred operation.
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Linitis Plastica Presenting as Pouch Outlet Stenosis 13 Years after Vertical Banded Gastroplasty.
TL;DR: Long-term follow-up, with interval endoscopic biopsies and careful case reporting, will be important if the authors are to know the risk of eventual gastric carcinoma in patients after VBG, in the area of the pouch outlet.
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Vertical Banded Gastroplasty: Stable Trends in Weight Control at 10 or More Years.
TL;DR: Review of patients at 10-12 and at 5-10 years after vertical banded gastroplasty suggests little deterioration in success rate, weight loss among successes, or revision requirement in VBG patients between 5 and > 10 years.
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The American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Closed-Claims Registry: Prevalence, Causes, and Lessons
John Morton,Habib Khoury,John A. Baker,Stacy A. Brethauer,William A. Sweet,Samer G. Mattar,Jamie Ponce,Ninh T. Nguyen,O. Rosenthal,Eric J. DeMaria +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the prevalence and causes of malpractice claims with examination of prospects for quality improvement in bariatric surgery and concluded that failure to diagnose, delay in treatment, postoperative care, and communication domain responses indicate future opportunities for improvement.
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American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery patient safety committee policy statement on the qualifications of expert witnesses in bariatric surgery medicolegal matters.
Ramsey M. Dallal,Daniel R. Cottam,Nicholas A. Bertha,Fernando B. Bonanni,Eric S. Bour,Robert E. Brolin,Keith Kim,Anthony Petrick,William A. Sweet,Robin P. Blackstone +9 more
TL;DR: The Patient Safety Committee of the ASMBS encourages its members to testify in court to promote safe and responsible bariatric surgical care and can provide guidance for expert witness qualifications in bariatric surgery medicolegal matters.
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