Referral criteria and assessment for bariatric surgery: Summary of updated NICE guidance

Gildea, Anthony, Shukla, Shreya, Parretti, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-269X and Khan, Omar (2023) Referral criteria and assessment for bariatric surgery: Summary of updated NICE guidance. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 382. ISSN 0959-8138

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Abstract

Until this year, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) had recommended bariatric surgery as a treatment option for people with a body mass index (BMI, weight (kg)/(height (m)2) of ≥40, or with a BMI of 35-39.9 with a significant obesity-related comorbidity, only if all non-surgical interventions had been tried first and the person was receiving management in a tier 3 service. New NICE guidelines now recommend that these groups of people should be offered a comprehensive assessment for bariatric surgery without the requirement for all non-surgical interventions to have been tried first, or for patients to already be under the management of a tier 3 service. The guidelines also provide an evidence-based list of significant health conditions that can be improved by bariatric surgery, which will help clinicians make decisions about who to offer an assessment to, and recommendations on what the assessment for surgery should include. This article summarises updated recommendations published in July 2023, referring to the updated NICE guidance on weight management. These guidelines update the previously published guidelines on management of obesity, first published in 2006 and updated in 2014.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	medicine(all),sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2023 12:30
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 03:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93106
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.p1880

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