Effectiveness of Gastric Bypass Versus Gastric Sleeve for Cardiovascular Disease: Protocol and Baseline Results for a Comparative Effectiveness Study

Karen J Coleman   ¹ , BS, PhD ;   Heidi Fischer   ¹ , PhD ;   David E Arterburn   ² , MD, MPH ;   Douglas Barthold   ³ , PhD ;   Lee J Barton   ¹ , MS ;   Anirban Basu   ³ , PhD ;   Anita Courcoulas   ⁴ , MD ;   Cecelia L Crawford   ⁵ , DNP, RN ;   Peter Fedorka   ⁶ , MD ;   Benjamin Kim   ⁷ , MD ;   Edward Mun   ⁷ , MD ;   Sameer Murali   ⁸ , MD ;   Kristi Reynolds   ¹ , PhD ;   Kangho Suh   ³ , PharmD ;   Rong Wei   ¹ , MS ;   Tae K Yoon   ¹ , MS ;   Robert Zane   ⁷ , MD

¹ Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States

² Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

³ The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics Institute, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

⁴ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁵ Regional Nursing Research Program, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Surgery, San Bernardino Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Ontario, CA, United States

⁷ Department of Surgery, South Bay Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Harbor City, CA, United States

⁸ Center for Healthy Living, San Bernardino Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Fontana, CA, United States