Development of the Italian Clinical Practice Guidelines on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Design and Methodological Aspects.

ABSTRACT: Development of the Italian clinical practice guidelines on bariatric and metabolic surgery, as well as design and methodological aspects.

Background

Obesity and its complications are a growing problem in many countries. Italian Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery for Obesity (Società Italiana di Chirurgia dell'Obesità e delle Malattie Metaboliche-SICOB) developed the first Italian guidelines for the treatment of obesity.

Methods

The creation of SICOB Guidelines is based on an extended work made by a panel of 24 members and a coordinator. Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) methodology has been used to decide the aims, reference population, and target health professionals. Clinical questions have been created using the PICO (Patie

SUBMITTER: De Luca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9823862 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature