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- Title
Commissioning guidance for weight assessment and management in adults and children with severe complex obesity.
- Authors
Welbourn, R.; Hopkins, J.; Dixon, J. B.; Finer, N.; Hughes, C.; Viner, R.; Wass, J.; on behalf of the Guidance Development Group
- Abstract
The challenge of managing the epidemic of patients with severe and complex obesity disease in secondary care is largely unmet. In England, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence and the National Health Service England have published guidance on the provision of specialist (non-surgical) weight management services. We have undertaken a systematic review of 'what evidence exists for what should happen in/commissioning of: primary or secondary care weight assessment and management clinics in patients needing specialist care for severe and complex obesity?' using an accredited methodology to produce a model for organization of multidisciplinary team clinics that could be developed in every healthcare system, as an update to a previous review. Additions to the previous guidance were multidisciplinary team pathways for children/adolescent patients and their transition to adult care, anaesthetic assessment and recommendations for ongoing shared care with general practitioners, as a chronic disease management pathway.
- Subjects
OBESITY; REGULATION of body weight; PREVENTION of obesity; OVERWEIGHT persons; DISEASE management
- Publication
Obesity Reviews, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1467-7881
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/obr.12601