Article Information
Group Information: PCORnet Bariatric Study Collaborative members appear at the end of the article.
Accepted for Publication: January 15, 2020.
Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
CC-BY License. © 2020 McTigue KM et al.
JAMA Surgery.
Corresponding Author: Kathleen McTigue, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee
Pl, Ste 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (
kmm34@
123456pitt.edu
).
Published Online: March 4, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.0087
Correction: This article was corrected on March 25, 2020, to fix an error in the name of a healthcare
organization. The name was rendered as “the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research
Network (PCORnet),” but it should have been “PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered
Clinical Research Network.” This occurred once in the Introduction section and once
in the Funding/Support section of the Article Information section. Both have been
fixed online.
Author Contributions: Drs McTigue and Arterburn had full access to all of the data in the study and take
responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Concept and design: McTigue, Wellman, Coley, Toh, Janning, Williams, Arterburn.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: McTigue, Wellman, Nauman, Anau, Coley, Tice, Coleman, Courcoulas, Pardee, Toh, Cook,
Sturtevant, Horgan, Arterburn.
Drafting of the manuscript: McTigue, Wellman, Anau, Coley, Coleman, Janning, Arterburn.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: McTigue, Wellman, Nauman, Anau, Coley, Tice, Courcoulas, Pardee, Toh, Williams, Cook,
Sturtevant, Horgan, Arterburn.
Statistical analysis: Wellman, Coley, Toh, Cook.
Obtained funding: McTigue, Anau, Arterburn.
Administrative, technical, or material support: McTigue, Nauman, Anau, Coleman, Courcoulas, Pardee, Sturtevant, Horgan.
Supervision: Coleman, Arterburn.
Other—patient perspective: Janning.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Courcoulas reports grants from Covidien/Ethicon Johnson & Johnson, during the
conduct of the study. Dr Tavakkoli reports personal fees from Medtronic and AMAG pharmaceuticals.
Dr Jones reports personal fees from Allurion. Mr Nadglowski reports other support
from the Obesity Action Coalition outside the submitted work.
Funding/Support: The PCORnet Study reported in this article was conducted using PCORnet, the National
Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, an initiative funded by the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute (grant OBS-1505-30683).
Role of the Funder/Sponsor
: The funder did not have a role in the study design; in the collection, management,
analysis, and interpretation of data; in the preparation, review, or approval of the
manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
PCORnet Bariatric Study Collaborative: Corrigan L. McBride, MD, and James McClay, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Omaha; Jeanne M. Clark, MD, Johns Hopkins University and Health Plan, Baltimore, Maryland;
Thomas H. Inge, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado, Denver;
Michelle R. Lent, PhD, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania; David G. Schlundt,
PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Meredith Duke, MD, University of
North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Steven R. Smith, MD, Florida Hospital–Translational Research
Institute, Orlando; Andrew O. Odegaard, PhD, University of California, Irvine; Nirav
K. Desai, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Ali Tavakkoli, MD,
and Elizabeth Cirelli, MS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Stavra
A. Xanthakos, MD, Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Laura J.
Rasmussen-Torvik, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago,
Illinois; Marc P. Michalsky, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; Matthew
F. Daley, MD, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora; Gabrielle
Purcell, MPH. University of California; San Francisco; Sameer Murali, MD, Southern
California Permanente Medical Group, Fontana; Ana Emiliano, MD, and Rhonda G. Kost,
MD, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Caroline M. Apovian, MD, and Donald
Hess, MD, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Cynthia A. Blalock, APRN,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Elisha Malanga, BS, COPD
Foundation, Miami, Florida; Jay R. Desai, MD, HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington,
Minnesota; Joe Nadglowski, BS, Obesity Action Coalition, Tampa, Florida; John H. Holmes,
PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Joseph
Vitello, MD, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Michael A. Horberg,
MD, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Rockville, Maryland;
Robert T. Greenlee, PhD, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin;
Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland,
Oregon; Roni Zeiger, MD, Smart Patients, Inc, Mountain View, California; Molly B.
Conroy, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Douglas S. Bell, MD, David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Jamy Ard, MD, Wake Forest School
of Medicine, Salem, North Carolina; Jing Bian, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville;
Bipan Chan, MD, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois; Michael A. Edwards,
MD, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Christina Wee, MD, and Daniel B.
Jones, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Jennifer L. Kraschnewski,
MD, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Kirk Reichard,
MD, Nemours AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware; Howard S. Gordon,
MD, and David O. Meltzer MD, University of Illinois, Chicago; Erin D. Roe, MD, Baylor
Scott & White, Dallas, Texas; William Richardson, MD, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans,
Louisiana; Sameer Malhotra, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Lindsay
G. Cowell, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Lydia A.
Bazzano, MD, PhD, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Jefferey S. Brown, Sengwee
Toh, ScD, Jessica L. Sturtevant, MS, and Casie Horgan, MPH, Department of Population
Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts; Anita Courcoulas, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Kathleen McTigue, MD, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; R. Yates Coley, PhD, David Arterburn,
MD, Robert Wellman, MS, Jane Anau, BS, Roy E. Pardee, JD, and Andrea J. Cook, PhD,
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle; Karen J. Coleman,
PhD, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Department of Research and Evaluation,
Pasadena; Cheri D. Janning, MS, Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Durham,
North Carolina; Neely Williams, MDiv, Mid-South Clinical Data Research Network and
Meharry–Vanderbilt Alliance Community Partner, Nashville, Tennessee.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not reflect
the views of PCORnet or PCORI. Dr McTigue attests that all listed authors meet authorship
criteria and nobody meeting authorship criteria has been omitted.
Additional Contributions: The study team also wishes to acknowledge the clinicians, analysts, and staff at
the 34 health systems which contributed to the study: Stephen R. Perry, Kin Lam, David
Hawkes, Thomas Dundon, and Kelli Kinsman, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Shelly Sital, The Chicago Community Trust, Elizabeth Tarlov, University
of Illinois at Chicago, Jasmin Phua, Medical Research Analytics and Informatics Alliance,
Mia Gallagher, Lindsey Petro, Beth Syat, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and
Harvard Medical School, Prakash Nadkarni, and Elizabeth Chrischilles, University of
Iowa, Steffani Roush, and Laurel Verhagen, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Umberto
Tachincardi, and Lawrence P. Hanrahan, University of Wisconsin, Phillip Reeder, Shiby
Antony, Rania AlShahrouri, University of Texas–Southwestern Medical Center, Bret Gardner,
James Campbell, Russell Buzalko, and Jay Pedersen, University of Nebraska Medical
Center, Dan Connolly, and Russel Waitman, University of Kansas Medical Center, Russel
Rothman, David Crenshaw, and Katie Worley, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Emily
Pfaff, Robert Bradford, Kellie Walters, Tim Carey, Timothy Farrell, and D. Wayne Overby,
University of North Carolina, Maija Neville-Williams, The Rockefeller University,
Elizabeth Shenkman, William Hogan, Kathryn McAuliffe, and Gigi Lipori, University
of Florida, Rebecca Zuvich Essner, Florida Hospital, Howard Su, Michael George, Michael
J. Becich, Barbara Postol, Giselle G. Hamad, Ramesh C. Ramanathan, Bestoun H. Ahmed,
William F. Gourash, Bill Shirey, Chuck Borromeo, John Milnes, Nickie Cappella, and
Desheng Li, University of Pittsburgh, Anthony T. Petrick, H. Lester Kirchner, Geisinger
Health System, Daniel E. Ford, Michael A. Schweitzer, Karl Burke, Harold Lehmann,
Megan E. Gauvey-Kern, and Diana Gumas. Johns Hopkins, Rachel Hess, Meghan Lynch, and
Reid Holbrook, University of Utah, Jody McCullough, Matt Bolton, Wenke Hwang, Ann
Rogers, Alison Bower, and Cynthia Chuang, Penn State, Cecilia Dobi, Mark Weiner, Anuradha
Paranjape, Sharon J. Herring, and Patricia Bernard, Temple University, Janet Zahner,
Parth Divekar, Keith Marsolo, and Lisa Boerger, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Kimberly
J. Holmquist, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Ray Pablo and Robynn Zender,
University of California at Irvine, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Paulina Paul, and Michele
Day, University of California at San Diego, Thomas Carton, Elizabeth Crull, and Iben
McCormick-Ricket, Louisiana Public Health Institute, Ashley Vernon, Malcom Robinson,
Scott Shikora, David Spector, Eric Sheu, Edward Mun, Matthew Hutter, Shawn Murphy,
Jeffrey Klann, and Denise Gee, Partners Healthcare, Daniel Jones, Benjamin Schneider,
Griffin Weber, and Robert Andrews, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brian Carmine,
Miguel Burch, and Galina Lozinski, Boston Medical Center, Ken Mandl, Jessica Lyons,
and Margaret Vella, Harvard Medical School, and Joseph Skelton and Kun Wei, Wake Forest
Integrated Health System. Some of these individuals were compensated for their contributions.
