Characterizing barriers and facilitators of metabolic bariatric surgery tourism: a systematic review.
Sharukh ZuberiAbdullah EgizHasan IqbalPeriyathambi JambulingamDouglas WhitelawTanveer AdilVigyan JainOmar Al-TaanAruna MunasingheAlan AskariMohamed K AlyFahad Mujtaba IqbalPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2024)
This work identifies a series of subthemes influencing the decision to undertake metabolic bariatric surgery tourism. The results highlight the limited literature available in understanding the complex motivational insights; the scale of the problem in the current healthcare system; cost and long-term outcomes. A National Emergency Bariatric Surgery audit would allow generation of more robust data to explore further the issues of clinical relationships and networks and to guide policy making.