The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Picot J, Jones J, Colquitt JL, Gospodarevskaya E, Loveman E, Baxter L, Clegg AJ
Record ID 32009100579
English
Authors' recommendations:
Bariatric surgery appears to be a clinically effective and cost-effective intervention for moderately to severely obese people compared with non-surgical interventions
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1742
Year Published:
2009
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Outcome Assessment, Health Care
- Young Adult
- Bariatric Surgery
- Obesity
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2009 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO
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