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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 Iqbal
Published 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.
Keyphrases
  • bariatric surgery
  • weight loss
  • obese patients
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • systematic review
  • emergency department
  • genome wide
  • electronic health record
  • big data
  • machine learning
  • dna methylation