Bariatric Surgery in France from 1997 to 2018.

Background: Bariatric surgery is 1 of the major treatments of obesity.

Objectives: This study describes the development of the bariatric surgery in France and look at some factors of this evolution.

Setting: It concerns the activity of all the French hospitals over a 22-year period.

Regional disparities in acute and post-acute care of stroke patients in France, 2015.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess regional variations of the hospital management of stroke patients during acute and post-acute phases in France in 2015.

Material And Methods: Hospitalized patients coded with stroke as their main diagnosis or, if hospitalized in several different wards, any main ward diagnosis were identified in the 2015 French national hospital discharge database for acute care. Rates of hospitalization in stroke units (SUs) were assessed at a national level and in all metropolitan and overseas regions.

[Algorithms for the identification of hospital stays due to osteoporotic femoral neck fractures in European medical administrative databases using ICD-10 codes: A non-systematic review of the literature].

Background: Osteoporotic hip fractures (OHF) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The French medico-administrative database (SNIIRAM) offers an interesting opportunity to improve the management of OHF. However, the validity of studies conducted with this database relies heavily on the quality of the algorithm used to detect OHF.

[French modalities of myocardial revascularisation in 2001].

Unlabelled: French modalities of myocardial revascularization were unknown, whereas beneficial effect on outcome was controversial. The study describes current practices in 2001 and analyzes those data according to regional coronary heart disease incidence and mortality.

Methods: Data are obtained from the French hospital national database (PMSI).