Clinical Research Improves Patient Care

Comment on: Employing New Enhanced Recovery Goals for Bariatric Surgery (ENERGY): A National Quality Improvement Project Utilizing the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program

“…The participant centers were likely more prepared and willing to implement changes to reduce their previously high percentage of extended LOS. Of note, both participating and nonparticipating centers decreased their percentage of extended LOS before the study implementation, an effect that was amplified in the post-ENERGY group [7].…”