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- Title
The MODEL-Intensive Behavioral Therapy Program: A Weight Control Blueprint for Health Care Practitioners.
- Authors
Kahan, Scott; Heymsfield, Steven B.
- Abstract
In 1998, Claude Lenfant, then Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, wrote in the Foreword of the inaugural National Institutes of Health's obesity guidelines, "It is our hope that these clinical guidelines will not only help the health care practitioner understand the importance of weight management but also provide them with the tools to assess and treat their patients more effectively" [1]. Lack of insurance coverage is frequently cited as the primary barrier to addressing obesity in primary care, yet intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) for obesity has been a covered service for Medicare beneficiaries since 2011 [5]. As such, we would much prefer to see this named "MODEM-IBT" (Managing Obesity with Diet, Exercise, and Medication-) or the like, as many, but far from all, patients will respond to liraglutide treatment whereas others may benefit more from other antiobesity medications instead.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR therapy; HEALTH practitioners; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL personnel
- Publication
Obesity (19307381), 2019, Vol 27, Issue 10, p1558
- ISSN
1930-7381
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/oby.22643