Assessing the state of obesity care : Quality, access, guidelines, and standards
(2024) In Obesity Science Practice 10(4). p.765-765- Abstract
BACKGROUND: An international panel of obesity medicine experts from multiple professional organizations examined patterns of obesity care and current obesity treatment guidelines to identify areas requiring updating in response to emerging science and clinical evidence.
AIMS: The panel focused on multiple medical health and societal issues influencing effective treatment of obesity and identified several unmet needs in the definition, assessment, and care of obesity.
METHODS: The panel was held in Leesburg, Virginia in September 2019.
RESULTS: The panelists recommended addressing these unmet needs in obesity medicine through research, education, evaluation of delivery and payment of care, and updating clinical practice... (More)
BACKGROUND: An international panel of obesity medicine experts from multiple professional organizations examined patterns of obesity care and current obesity treatment guidelines to identify areas requiring updating in response to emerging science and clinical evidence.
AIMS: The panel focused on multiple medical health and societal issues influencing effective treatment of obesity and identified several unmet needs in the definition, assessment, and care of obesity.
METHODS: The panel was held in Leesburg, Virginia in September 2019.
RESULTS: The panelists recommended addressing these unmet needs in obesity medicine through research, education, evaluation of delivery and payment of care, and updating clinical practice guidelines (CPG) to better reflect obesity's pathophysiological basis and heterogeneity, as well as the disease's health, sociocultural, and economic complications; effects on quality of life; need for standards for quantitative comparison of treatment benefits, risks, and costs; and the need to more effectively integrate obesity treatment guidelines into routine clinical practice and to facilitate more direct clinician participation to improve public understanding of obesity as a disease with a pathophysiological basis. The panel also recommended that professional organizations working to improve the care of people with obesity collaborate via a working group to develop an updated, patient-focused, comprehensive CPG establishing standards of care, addressing identified needs, and providing for routine, periodic review and updating.
CONCLUSIONS: Unmet needs in the definition, assessment and treatment of obesity were identified and a blueprint to address these needs developed via a clinical practice guideline that can be utilized worldwide to respond to the increasing prevalence of obesity.
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- author
- Kaplan, Lee M
; Apovian, Caroline M
; Ard, Jamy D
; Allison, David B
; Aronne, Louis J
; Batterham, Rachel L
; Busetto, Luca
; Dicker, Dror
; Horn, Deborah B
; Kelly, Aaron S
; Mechanick, Jeffrey I
; Purnell, Jonathan Q
and Ramos-Salas, Ximena
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- 2024-08
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Obesity Science Practice
- volume
- 10
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 765 - 765
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- pmid:39026558
- scopus:85198922875
- ISSN
- 2055-2238
- DOI
- 10.1002/osp4.765
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- © 2024 The Authors. Obesity Science & Practice published by World Obesity and The Obesity Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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- 2026-02-18 12:56:40
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author = {{Kaplan, Lee M and Apovian, Caroline M and Ard, Jamy D and Allison, David B and Aronne, Louis J and Batterham, Rachel L and Busetto, Luca and Dicker, Dror and Horn, Deborah B and Kelly, Aaron S and Mechanick, Jeffrey I and Purnell, Jonathan Q and Ramos-Salas, Ximena}},
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