Showing posts with label bariatric surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bariatric surgery. Show all posts

Monday, 19 October 2015

Prioritising patients for bariatric surgery

"This study extends our understanding of the publics’ preferences for priority setting to the context of bariatric surgery, and derives priority weights that could be used to assist bodies responsible for commissioning bariatric services."

Prioritising patients for bariatric surgery: building public preferences from a discrete choice experiment into public policy
JA Whitty, et al.
BMJ Open, 2015, 5:e008919

Read more here.

Monday, 31 March 2014

Commissioning guide: weight assessment and management clinics

"This Tier 3 guidance describes the role of the referring GP, what should be achieved in the clinics and who should be referred for bariatric surgery."

Commissioning guide: weight assessment and management clinics (tier 3)
Royal College of Surgeons (England)
March 2014

Read more here.

Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.